Task attention facilitates learning of task-irrelevant stimuli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Tsung Ren ^a   Watanabe, Takeo ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860356472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035946     Document Type: Article

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