Stuck on a Plateau? A Model-Based Approach to Fundamental Issues in Visual Temporal-Order Judgments.

ABSTRACT: Humans are incapable of judging the temporal order of visual events at brief temporal separations with perfect accuracy. Their performance-which is of much interest in visual cognition and attention research-can be measured with the temporal-order judgment (TOJ) task, which typically produces S-shaped psychometric functions. Occasionally, researchers reported plateaus within these functions, and some theories predict such deviation from the basic S shape. However, the centers of the psychometric functions result from the weakest performance at the most difficult presentations and therefore fluctuate strongly, leaving the existence and exact shapes of plateaus unclear. This study set out to investigate whether plateaus disappear if the data accuracy is enhanced, or if we are "stuck on a pla

SUBMITTER: Tunnermann J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6835551 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature