Complete Transfer of Perceptual Learning across Retinal Locations Enabled by Double Training

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 1922-1926

  Xiao, Lu Qi ^a   Zhang, Jun Yun ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Klein, Stanley A ^b   Levi, Dennis M ^b   Yu, Cong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 57649212024     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.030     Document Type: Article

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