Achievement of specificational information usage with true and false feedback in learning a visual relative-mass discrimination task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 163-182

  Runeson, Sverker ^a,b   Andersson, Isabell E K ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Uppsala University ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

False feedback; Invariant usage; Johansson's vector model; Perceptual skill acquisition; Smart mechanisms; Visual relative mass discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECUMBENCY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847194256     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.1.16     Document Type: Article

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