Perceptual learning

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 124-128

  Ahissar, Merav ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortical hierarchy; Feature search; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033245792     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00029     Document Type: Article

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