Rapid enumeration within a fraction of a single glance: The role of visible persistence in object individuation capacity

Visual Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 717-732

  Wutz, Andreas ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b   Melcher, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Object individuation; Sensory memory; Subitizing; Visible persistence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84863464659     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.686460     Document Type: Article

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