Task difficulty modulates electrophysiological correlates of perceptual learning

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 234-240

  Wang, You ^a   Song, Yan ^b   Qu, Zhe ^a   Ding, Yulong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Orientation discrimination; Perceptual learning; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77549083773     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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