Disambiguating Necker cube rotation using a location cue: What types of spatial location signal can the visual system learn?

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Harrison, Sarah ^a   Backus, Benjamin ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguous stimuli; Cue recruitment; Necker cube; Perceptual bistability; Perceptual learning; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; VISION;

ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955158733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.6.23     Document Type: Article

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