What are the shapes of response time distributions in visual search?

Many visual search experiments measure response time (RT) as their primary dependent variable. Analyses typically focus on mean (or median) RT. However, given enough data, the RT distribution can be a rich source of information. For this paper, we collected about 500 trials per cell per observer for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Palmer, Evan M., Horowitz, Todd S., Torralba, Antonio
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Psychological Association (APA) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73546
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4915-0256