Perceptual averaging by eye and ear: Computing summary statistics from multimodal stimuli

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 810-815

  Albrecht, Alice R ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^a   Chun, Marvin M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiovisual interaction; Ensemble perception; Perceptual averaging; Statistical summary representations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HEARING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENT;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 84862646816     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0293-0     Document Type: Article

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