Where practice makes perfect in texture discrimination: Evidence for primary visual cortex plasticity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 4966-4970

  Karni, Avi ^a,b   Sagi, Dov ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Monocularity; Orientation gradient; Perceptual learning; Preattentive vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0025907842     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.11.4966     Document Type: Article

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