The role of feedback in learning a vernier discrimination task

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 2133-2141

  Herzog, Michael H ^a   Fahle, Manfred ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

(Un)supervised learning; Hyperacuity; Modeling; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDBACK; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0030858871     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00043-6     Document Type: Article

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