The effect of exposure duration on visual character identification in single, whole, and partial report

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 498-514

  Petersen, Anders ^a,b   Andersen, Tobias S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Character identification; Exposure duration; Psychometric function; Theory of Visual Attention; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865310052     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026728     Document Type: Article

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