The benefits of cholinergic enhancement during perceptual learning are long-lasting

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Rokem, Ariel ^a   Silver, Michael A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Donepezil; Neural plasticity; Perceptual learning; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS; DONEPEZIL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEURAL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; TRAINING PROCEDURES;

MEDICAL COMPUTING; VISION;

NEUROLOGY;

DONEPEZIL; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RETENTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 84877306870     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00066     Document Type: Article

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