Tanner & Swets (1954), Psychological Review 61(6):401–409 (1954). Crossref (DOI 10.1037/h0058700) confirms title, authors, volume, issue and pages. Work done for the U.S. Army Signal Corps (Contract DA-36-039 sc-15358) at the University of Michigan Vision Research Laboratories. — DOI-10.1037/h0058700
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-09-30 at the owner’s request, as one of the sources registered to cover signal detection theory,
which the record lacked; its only detection-theory entry, Van Trees 1968 (LIT-351), is unreachable.
published: is the first appearance (ADR-002).
It was filed Deferred, unread. NOTE-316 is the close reading of 2026-09-30, and it placed the work: Active — worth reading as the founding psychophysics paper of signal detection theory: it is short, it is the first place d′ is named, and it is the first to put the observer on the ROC and to set the likelihood-ratio criterion β from priors and payoffs. For the ideal-observer mathematics it defers entirely to Peterson and Birdsall (1953), and its experiment is small (three observers) with some statistics asserted rather than shown.