Browsing Theses by Author "Jabar, Syaheed"
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Orienting to probable stimuli increases speed, precision, and kurtosis. A study in perceptual estimation.
Jabar, Syaheed (University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)Stimulus probabilities affect detection performance. Rare targets, even in security or medical screenings, are missed more often than frequent ones. To minimize such probability-related costs, there is a need to understand ... -
The Perceptual Mechanisms of Probability Effects
Jabar, Syaheed (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-13)Environmental statistics impact human behaviour. The more likely something is to occur, the faster and more accurate we are at detecting it. This probability effect has been studied in numerous forms. However, there is no ...