The speed and accuracy of material recognition in natural images

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 954-966

  Wiebel, Christiane B ^a   Valsecchi, Matteo ^a   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Categorization; Natural image; Scene recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COLOR; CUES; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879436025     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0436-y     Document Type: Article

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