Perceptual learning in the absence of task or stimulus specificity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Webb, Ben S ^a   Roach, Neil W ^a   McGraw, Paul V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 44449112705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001323     Document Type: Article

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