The danger of trial-by-trial knowledge of results in perceptual averaging studies

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 655-665

  Bauer, Ben ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; INTUITION; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; INTUITION; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 65549132077     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.3.655     Document Type: Article

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