Perceptual learning of highly demanding visual search tasks

Vision Research

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 2193-2204

  Leonards, Ute ^a,b   Rettenbach, Regina ^a   Nase, Gabriele ^a   Sireteanu, Ruxandra ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conjunctions; Local brightness distribution; Perceptual learning; Visual feature; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIGHTING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036669294     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00134-7     Document Type: Article

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