Detection and identification: how are they related?

Signal detection theory and psychophysics

1966 • 10,366 citations

On the existence of neurones in the human visual system selectively sensitive to the orientation and size of retinal images

1969 • 2,040 citations

Contrast masking in human vision

1980 • 1,186 citations

A vector-magnitude model of contrast detection

1974 • 717 citations

A four mechanism model for threshold spatial vision

1979 • 710 citations

Orientational selectivity of the human visual system

1966 • 695 citations

Uncertainty explains many aspects of visual contrast detection and discrimination

1985 • 676 citations

Probability summation over time

1979 • 586 citations

Spatial-Frequency Channels in Human Vision*

1971 • 510 citations

Discrimination at threshold: Labelled detectors in human vision

1981 • 426 citations

Spatial frequency tuning of orientation selective units estimated by oblique masking

1983 • 422 citations

Detection of grating patterns containing two spatial frequencies: A comparison of single-channel and multiple-channels models

1971 • 409 citations

Spatial-Frequency Masking in Vision: Critical Bands and Spread of Masking*

1972 • 398 citations

Some Quantitative Aspects of an Opponent-Colors Theory II Brightness, Saturation, and Hue in Normal and Dichromatic Vision

1955 • 381 citations

Spatial arrangement of line, edge and grating detectors revealed by subthreshold summation

1973 • 298 citations

Modified line-element theory for spatial-frequency and width discrimination

1984 • 289 citations

The orientation specificity of two visual after‐effects

1971 • 269 citations

Orientation bandwidths of spatial mechanisms measured by masking

1984 • 257 citations

Vector model for normal and dichromatic color vision*

1980 • 235 citations

Visual Detection and Localization of Radiographic Images

1975 • 206 citations

Aftereffect of Seen Motion with a Stabilized Retinal Image

1963 • 194 citations

Summation and discrimination of gratings moving in opposite directions

1980 • 177 citations

PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PSYCHOPHYSICAL DATA*

1961 • 174 citations

Theory of Recognition

1956 • 172 citations

Visual detection of aperiodic spatial stimuli by probability summation among narrowband channels

1977 • 154 citations

Summation of grating patches indicates many types of detector at one retinal location

1982 • 151 citations

Visual Detection and Discrimination of Luminance Increments*

1970 • 151 citations

Bandwidths of orientation channels in human vision

1979 • 144 citations

Uncertainty about spatial frequency, spatial position, or contrast of visual patterns

1983 • 135 citations

Discrimination of simple and complex gratings

1975 • 133 citations

Detectability of a luminance increment: Effect of spatial uncertainty*

1974 • 128 citations

Detection of noisy visual targets: Models for the effects of spatial uncertainty and signal-to-noise ratio

1981 • 113 citations

Limits of spatial-frequency discrimination as evidence of neural interpolation

1982 • 113 citations

Contrast response of human visual mechanisms sensitive to orientation and direction of motion

1969 • 110 citations

The simultaneous spatial frequency shift: A dissociation between the detection and perception of gratings

1974 • 108 citations

Model of the function of receptive fields in human vision.

1970 • 107 citations

Spatial frequency uncertainty effects in the detection of sinusoidal gratings

1981 • 106 citations

Structure and properties of a single channel in the human visual system

1976 • 106 citations

Detection and recognition.

1978 • 99 citations

Simultaneous detection and recognition of chromatic flashes

1972 • 97 citations

Discrimination of moving gratings at and above detection threshold

1983 • 83 citations

Spatial and temporal determinants of visual backward masking.

1965 • 79 citations

Orientational selectivity of grating and line detectors in human vision

1973 • 74 citations

Visual signal detectionIIIOn Bayesian use of prior knowledge and cross correlation

1985 • 73 citations

Spatial frequency analsis in early visual processing

1980 • 72 citations

Effects of different hypothetical detection mechanisms on the shape of spatial-frequency filters inferred from masking experiments: I noise masks

1981 • 70 citations

Apparent fineness of briefly presented gratings: balance between movement and pattern channels

1975 • 64 citations

Double-judgment psychophysics: problems and solutions

1985 • 63 citations

Why luminance discrimination may be better than detection

1981 • 61 citations

Phase reversal discrimination

1984 • 61 citations

Simultaneous visual detection and identification: theory and data

1982 • 58 citations

Further evidence for four mechanisms mediating vision at threshold: Sensitivities to complex gratings and aperiodic stimuli

1979 • 52 citations

The detection and identification of lines and edges

1975 • 47 citations

Shifts in perceived size as a function of contrast and temporal modulation

1983 • 46 citations

Underlying psychometric function for detecting gratings and identifying spatial frequency

1983 • 44 citations

Detection and discrimination of simple and complex patterns at low spatial frequencies

1977 • 41 citations

Detection and identification of near-threshold visual patterns

1985 • 40 citations

Signal Detection Theory and its Application to Problems in Vision

1972 • 39 citations

Gratings: why frequency discrimination is sometimes better than detection

1981 • 33 citations

Detection and identification of spatial frequency: models and data

1984 • 32 citations

Effect of quantization noise on visual signal detection in noisy images

1985 • 29 citations

Simultaneous recognition of two spatial-frequency components

1982 • 26 citations

Inhibitory interaction between visual pathways tuned to different orientations

1975 • 26 citations

The detection and recognition of two lines

1981 • 25 citations

Simultaneous measurement of spatial-frequency summation and uncertainty effects

1985 • 24 citations

Interactions between spatially tuned mechanisms: converging evidence

1985 • 22 citations

Detection/discrimination in the long-wavelength pathways

1982 • 22 citations

Perception of size at the detection threshold: Its accuracy and possible mechanisms

1974 • 18 citations

Size-selective adaptation: Psychophysical evidence for size-tuning and the effects of stimulus contour and adapting flux

1973 • 16 citations

Shifts in perceived spatial frequency of low-contrast stimuli: data and theory

1986 • 14 citations

Detection and identification of monochromatic stimuli under chromatic contrast

1974 • 10 citations

Position discrimination may be better than detection

1982 • 8 citations

Detection and recognition of visual targets

1985 • 8 citations

Double-judgment detection-identification: problems and solution (A)

1984 • 4 citations

Detection and identification of color increments to a white background (A)

1984 • 3 citations