Mechanisms of perceptual learning of depth discrimination in random dot stereograms

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 2170-2178

  Gantz, Liat ^a   Patel, Saumil S ^b   Chung, Susana T L ^a   Harwerth, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth discrimination; Disparity energy model; Internal noise; Interocular decorrelation; Perceptual learning; Random dot stereograms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34447300409     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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