A decisional account of subjective inflation of visual perception at the periphery

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 258-271

  Solovey, Guillermo ^a,b,c,d   Graney, Guy Gerard ^a   Lau, Hakwan ^a,e  

^a Department of Psychology Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Laboratorio de Neurociencias   (Argentina)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptual decision making; Peripheral vision; Psychophysics; Signal detection theory; Subjective perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA FOVEA; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922005259     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0769-1     Document Type: Article

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