Task relevancy and demand modulate double-training enabled transfer of perceptual learning

Vision Research

Volumn 61, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-38

  Wang, Rui ^a   Zhang, Jun Yun ^a   Klein, Stanley A ^b   Levi, Dennis M ^b   Yu, Cong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Double training; Location specificity; Perceptual learning; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE TRAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860854427     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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