Multisensory perceptual learning of temporal order: Audiovisual learning transfers to vision but not audition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Alais, David ^a   Cass, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; LEARNING;

HEARING; HUMANS; LEARNING; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77955282864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011283     Document Type: Article

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