Calculation Efficiencies for Mean Numerosity.
Psychol Sci
; 29(11): 1824-1831, 2018 11.
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ABSTRACT
Relative numerosity is traditionally studied using texture pairs. Observers must decide which member of each pair has the greater total number of texture elements. In the present experiment, textures were segregated into nonoverlapping "sectors" containing between zero and four elements, and our observers were asked to select the texture containing the greater average number of texture elements (per sector). If observers were more sensitive to total numerosity than average numerosity, their performance (quantified by the just-noticeable Weber fraction) should have been better when the two textures occupied the same number of sectors than when they occupied unequal numbers of sectors. However, we recorded Weber fractions between 11% and 13% for all observers in all conditions. This performance was comparable with an otherwise-ideal observer whose decisions were based on between three and five sectors in each texture. We conjecture that traditional numerosity discriminations are based on similarly small numbers of element clusters.
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Reconhecimento Visual de Modelos
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Percepção Espacial
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Discriminação Psicológica
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Matemática
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Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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Psychol Sci
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
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2018
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Article