Benefits of efficient consolidation: Short training enables long-term resistance to perceptual adaptation induced by intensive testing

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 970-977

  Censor, Nitzan ^a   Sagi, Dov ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Memory consolidation; Perceptual learning; Sensory adaptation; Sleep; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SLEEP;

EID: 39749145031     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.01.016     Document Type: Article

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