The role of perceptual learning on modality-specific visual attentional effects

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-70

  Chirimuuta, M ^a,d   Burr, David ^a,b   Morrone, M Concetta ^a,c  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Colour; Contrast discrimination; Perceptual learning; Plasticity; Pop out; V4; Ventral stream; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIGHT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33751203547     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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