Location and salience of unique features in human perceptual learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 407-418

  Wang, Tony ^a   Lavis, Yvonna ^b   Hall, Geoffrey ^a,b   Mitchell, Chris J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Discrimination; Eye gaze; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84874561313     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029733     Document Type: Article

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