A new two-alternative forced choice method for the unbiased characterization of perceptual bias and discriminability

Journal of Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Jogan, Matjaž ^a,b   Stocker, Alan A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminability; Methods; Perceptual bias; Psychophysics; Two alternative forced choice (2AFC)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINABILITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL BIAS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL BIAS; TWO-ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE (2AFC);

DISCRIMINABILITY; METHODS; PERCEPTUAL BIAS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TWO-ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE (2AFC);

ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 84897054670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/14.3.20     Document Type: Article

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