The role of top-down task context in learning to perceive objects

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 9869-9876

  Song, Yiying ^a,b   Hu, Siyuan ^a,b   Li, Xueting ^a   Li, Wu ^a   Liu, Jia ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954841540     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0140-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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