No Evidence for an Item Limit in Change Detection

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Keshvari, Shaiyan ^a,b   van den Berg, Ronald ^a   Ma, Wei Ji ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL ENCODING;

CHANGE DETECTION; DETECTION EXPERIMENTS; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; ENCODINGS; FIXED NUMBERS; MEAN PRECISION; MEMORY CAPACITY; PROBABILISTICS; RESOURCE MODELLING; WORKING MEMORY;

CHANGE DETECTION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PROBABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84874770550     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002927     Document Type: Article

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