Specificity of fast perceptual learning in shape localisation tasks based on detection versus form discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 473-478

  Kraft, Antje ^a   Grimsen, Cathleen ^b   Trenner, Dennis ^b   Kehrer, Stefanie ^a,c   Lipfert, Anika ^a   Köhnlein, Martin ^a   Fahle, Manfred ^b,d   Brandt, Stephan A ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color; Figure ground segmentation; Luminance; Motion; Texture; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78549247611     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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