Signal but not noise changes with perceptual learning

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6758, 1999, Pages 176-178

  Gold, J ^a   Bennett, P J ^a   Sekuler, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNIQUE;

FACE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033547445     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46027     Document Type: Article

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