High false positive rates in common sensory threshold tests
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High false positive rates in common sensory threshold tests.
Large variability in thresholds to sensory stimuli is observed frequently even in healthy populations. Much of this variability is attributed to genetics and day-to-day fluctuation in sensitivity. However, false positives are also contributing to the variability seen in these tests. In this study, random number generation was used to simulate responses in threshold methods using different "stop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1943-3921,1943-393X
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-014-0798-9