Is approximate numerical judgment truly modality-independent? Visual, auditory, and cross-modal comparisons

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1852-1861

  Tokita, Midori ^a   Ashitani, Yui ^a   Ishiguchi, Akira ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accumulator model; Approximate numerosity; Cross modal comparison; Sensory modality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEARING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84887584221     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0526-x     Document Type: Article

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