Perceptual learning with spatial uncertainties

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 3223-3233

  Otto, Thomas U ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^a,b   Fahle, Manfred ^b,c   Zhaoping, Li ^d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c The Henry Wellcome Applied Vision Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bisection task; Ideal observer model; Positional coding; Recurrent networks; Stimulus uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; POSITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRAINING; TREMOR; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746135684     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.03.021     Document Type: Article

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