An event-related potential study on perceptual learning in grating orientation discrimination

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 945-948

  Song, Yan ^a   Peng, Danling ^a   Lu, Chunming ^a   Liu, Conghui ^a   Li, Xiaolan ^a   Liu, Peipei ^a   Qu, Zhe ^b   Ding, Yulong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Generalization; Grating orientation; Human adults; Specificity; Visual perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249071562     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3281527795     Document Type: Article

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