Co-learning analysis of two perceptual learning tasks with identical input stimuli supports the reweighting hypothesis

Vision Research

Volumn 61, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-32

  Huang, Chang Bing ^a,b   Lu, Zhong Lin ^a,c   Dosher, Barbara A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisection; Perceptual learning; Representation enhancement; Selective reweighting; Vernier

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860866763     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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