Better than average: Alternatives to statistical summary representations for rapid judgments of average size

2008/07/01 by K. MYCZEK, Kristoffer Myczek, Daniel J. Simons +1 · 201 citations
Mathematics · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Display size #Face Recognition and Perception #Mathematics #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Object (grammar) #Perception #Process (computing) #Psychology #Statistics #Visual perception and processing mechanisms

paper · pdf · doi:10.3758/pp.70.5.772

published in Perception & Psychophysics 70(5), 772-788 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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