Requiem for the max rule?

Vision Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2015, Pages 179-193

  Ma, Wei Ji ^a,b   Shen, Shan ^b   Dziugaite, Gintare ^b,c   van den Berg, Ronald ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change detection; Computational models; Decision rules; Ideal observer; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84946569858     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.12.019     Document Type: Article

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