Low-level sensory plasticity during task-irrelevant perceptual learning: Evidence from conventional and double training procedures

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 424-432

  Pilly, Praveen K ^a   Grossberg, Stephen ^a   Seitz, Aaron R ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Double training; Low level sensory plasticity; Motion processing; Perceptual learning; Simple cells

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK IRRELEVANT PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 83055176226     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.022     Document Type: Article

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