Does precision decrease with set size?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Mazyar, Helga ^a   van den Berg, Ronald ^a   Ma, Wei Ji ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Ideal observer model; Precision; Set size effects; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84861881467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/12.6.10     Document Type: Article

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