Perceptual learning and attention: Reduction of object attention limitations with practice

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 402-415

  Dosher, Barbara Anne ^a   Han, Songmei ^a   Lu, Zhong Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual response; Object attention; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 79955156642     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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