Perceptual learning for a pattern discrimination task

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 3209-3230

  Fine, I ^a   Jacobs, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Pattern discrimination; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GRATING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEXTURE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033811093     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00163-2     Document Type: Article

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