Numerosity underestimation with item similarity in dynamic visual display

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Au, Ricky K C ^a,b   Watanabe, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL LOAD; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DYNAMIC PRESENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NUMEROSITY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SAME-COLOR OBJECTS; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ATTENTIONAL LOAD; DYNAMIC PRESENTATION; NUMEROSITY; SAME-COLOR OBJECTS;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84882804546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.8.5     Document Type: Article

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