Learning to discriminate simple sinusoidal gratings is task specific

Psychological Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-156

  Meinhardt, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036560368     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-001-0080-3     Document Type: Article

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