Modeling mechanisms of perceptual learning with augmented Hebbian re-weighting

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 375-390

  Lu, Zhong Lin ^a   Liu, Jiajuan ^a   Dosher, Barbara Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

External noise exclusion; Hebbian learning; Mechanisms of perceptual learning; Re weighting; Stimulus enhancement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUGMENTED HEBBIAN REWEIGHTING MODEL; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE REDUCTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; LEARNING; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955844864     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.027     Document Type: Article

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