Roles of attention in perceptual learning from perspectives of psychophysics and animal learning

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 126-132

  Tsushima, Yoshiaki ^a   Watanabe, Takeo ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY SYSTEM; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67649408869     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.37.2.126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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