Individual differences in learning to perceive length by dynamic touch: Evidence for variation in perceptual learning capacities

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-75

  Withagen, Rob ^a   van Wermeskerken, Margot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; TOUCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; STEREOGNOSIS; TOUCH; WEIGHT PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64749099016     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.1.64     Document Type: Article

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