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SUBMITTER: Ma WJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3713779 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ma Wei Ji WJ Navalpakkam Vidhya V Beck Jeffrey M JM Berg Ronald van den Rv Pouget Alexandre A
Nature neuroscience 20110508 6
The ability to search efficiently for a target in a cluttered environment is one of the most remarkable functions of the nervous system. This task is difficult under natural circumstances, as the reliability of sensory information can vary greatly across space and time and is typically a priori unknown to the observer. In contrast, visual-search experiments commonly use stimuli of equal and known reliability. In a target detection task, we randomly assigned high or low reliability to each item o ...[more]