Neural substrates of visual perceptual learning of simple and complex stimuli

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 632-639

  Song, Yan ^a,b   Ding, Yulong ^b,c   Fan, Silu ^b   Qu, Zhe ^b,c   Xu, Lun ^a   Lu, Chunming ^a   Peng, Danling ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Complex stimuli; Discrimination; Event related potentials (ERPs); Human adults; Simple stimuli; Visual perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 13844297507     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.09.019     Document Type: Article

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