Unsupervised statistical learning of higher-order spatial structures from visual scenes

Psychological Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 499-504

  Fiser, József ^b   Aslin, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0035516285     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00392     Document Type: Article

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