Perceptual learning in object recognition: Object specificity and size invariance

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 473-484

  Furmanski, Christopher S ^a   Engel, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Object recognition; Perceptual learning; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0033978169     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00134-0     Document Type: Article

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