Level and mechanisms of perceptual learning: Learning first-order luminance and second-order texture objects

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1996-2007

  Dosher, Barbara Anne ^a   Lu, Zhong Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

First order luminance system; Internal noise reduction; Mechanisms of perceptual learning; Perceptual learning; Second order texture system; Stimulus enhancement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33644523100     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.11.025     Document Type: Article

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