Perceptual learning on orientation and direction discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3692-3701

  Matthews, Nestor ^a   Liu, Zili ^b   Geesaman, Bard J ^c   Qian, Ning ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalization; Learning rate; Motion; Specificity; Training; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TRAINING; VELOCITY; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032775065     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00069-3     Document Type: Article

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