Perceptual learning with Chevrons requires a minimal number of trials, transfers to untrained directions, but does not require sleep

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2087-2094

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

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Chevron; Consolidation; Hyperacuity; Perceptual learning; Sleep; Transfer of learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SLEEP; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 67650479266     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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