Two cases requiring external reinforcement in perceptual learning

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 966-973

  Seitz, Aaron R ^a,c   Nanez Sr , Jose E ^b   Holloway, Steve ^b   Tsushima, Yoshiaki ^a   Watanabe, Takeo ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

External reinforcement; Feedback; Internal reinforcement; Motion discrimination; Orientation discrimination; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MOTION; NOISE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRY; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748206711     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.9.9     Document Type: Article

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