When more is less: Extraction of summary statistics benefits from larger sets

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Robitaille, Nicolas ^a,b   Harris, Irina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound (BRAMS)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detection discrimination; Object recognition; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

ATTENTION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 81555196426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.12.18     Document Type: Article

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