Shape-specific perceptual learning in a figure-ground segregation task

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 914-924

  Yi, Do Joon ^a   Olson, Ingrid R ^b   Chun, Marvin M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Figure ground; Perceptual learning; Search; Segmentation; Shape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 29544437191     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.09.009     Document Type: Article

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