ERP evidence for distinct mechanisms of fast and slow visual perceptual learning

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1869-1874

  Qu, Zhe ^a,b   Song, Yan ^c   Ding, Yulong ^a,b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Event related potential (ERP); Fast learning; Long term preservation; Perceptual learning; Slow learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952550655     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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