Removing the frontal lobes: The effects of engaging executive functions on perceptual category learning

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 415-423

  Filoteo, J Vincent ^a,b   Lauritzen, Scott ^c   Maddox, W Todd ^c  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Category learning; Executive functioning; Multiple systems; Procedural learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77951284852     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610362646     Document Type: Article

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