Effect of spatial distance to the task stimulus on task-irrelevant perceptual learning of static Gabors

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Nishina, Shigeaki ^a,b   Seitz, Aaron R ^a   Kawato, Mitsuo ^c   Watanabe, Takeo ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories ^*  (United States)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gabor; Internal reward; Orientation discrimination; Perceptual learning; RSVP; Spatial attention; Task irrelevant learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 35348877305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.13.2     Document Type: Article

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