Modeling perceptual learning: Difficulties and how they can be overcome

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-117

  Herzog, Michael H ^a,b   Fahle, Manfred ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SYNAPSE;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0031989825     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220050418     Document Type: Article

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