How much practice is needed to produce perceptual learning?

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 2624-2634

  Hussain, Zahra ^a   Sekuler, Allison B ^a,b   Bennett, Patrick J ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Consolidation; Face; Identification; One trial learning; Perceptual learning; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349964670     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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