Improving the estimation of psychometric functions in 2AFC discrimination tasks

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  García Pérez, Miguel A ^a   Alcalá Quintana, Rocío ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Difference limen; Order; Point of subjective equality; Psychometric function; Two alternative forced choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857719287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00096     Document Type: Article

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