Learning pop-out detection: Specificities to stimulus characteristics

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 3487-3500

  Ahissar, Merav ^a,b   Hochstein, Shaul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Detection; Learning; Orientation; Plasticity; Specificity; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030297878     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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