Perceptual learning in contrast discrimination and the (minimal) role of context

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 169-182

  Yu, Cong ^a,c   Klein, Stanley A ^b   Levi, Dennis M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Context; Contrast discrimination; Perceptual learning; Roving

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA IMAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3843123478     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.3.4     Document Type: Article

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