Little to be expected from auditory training for improving visual temporal discrimination

NeuroQuantology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-102

  Grondin, Simon ^a   Bisson, Nicolas ^a   Gagnon, Caroline ^a   Gamache, Pierre Luc ^a   Matteau, Andrée Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross modal transfer; Duration discrimination; Learning; Sensory modalities; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 67649996304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13035150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14704/nq.2009.7.1.211     Document Type: Article

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