On the automaticity of pure perceptual sequence learning

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1460-1472

  Coomans, Daphné ^a   Deroost, Natacha ^a   Zeischka, Peter ^a   Soetens, Eric ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Automaticity; Implicit learning; Perceptual learning; Perceptual load; Sequence learning; SRT task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054869668     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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