Visual learning for perceptual and categorical decisions in the human brain

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 433-440

  Kourtzi, Zoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; fMRI; Learning; Plasticity; Visual recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955692378     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.025     Document Type: Article

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