Perceptual learning of motion direction discrimination in fovea: Separable mechanisms

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2315-2327

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

^a Neuroscience Graduate Program   (United States)

^b Instit Mathematical Behavioral Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

External noise exclusion; Internal noise reduction; Masking; Mechanisms of perceptual learning; Separable mechanisms; Stimulus enhancement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTRAST; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33646486300     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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