Comparing perceptual learning tasks: A review

Journal of Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 190-203

  Fine, Ione ^a   Jacobs, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Discrimination; Learning; Object recognition; Pattern discrimination; Plasticity; Training

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FACE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; RETINA FOVEA; REVIEW; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036979264     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/2.2.5     Document Type: Review

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