Task difficulty and the specificity of perceptual learning

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6631, 1997, Pages 401-406

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

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030914546     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387401a0     Document Type: Article

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