Perceptual learning and roving: Stimulus types and overlapping neural populations

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1420-1427

  Tartaglia, Elisa M ^a   Aberg, Kristoffer C ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bisection task; Hyperacuity; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349089913     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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