Specificity of perceptual learning increases with increased training

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1928-1940

  Jeter, Pamela E ^a,d   Dosher, Barbara Anne ^a   Liu, Shiau Hua ^a,b   Lu, Zhong Lin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptual learning; Specificity and transfer; Training paradigms; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 77955846166     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.06.016     Document Type: Article

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