When does fading enhance perceptual category learning?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1162-1173

  Pashler, Harold ^a   Mozer, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Category learning; Fading; Learning; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84880682191     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031679     Document Type: Article

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