Transfer in motion perceptual learning depends on the difficulty of the training task

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Xiaoxiao ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^a   Liu, Zili ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Difficulty; Motion transfer; Perceptual learning; Task precision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFICULTY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTION TRANSFER; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PRECISION;

DIFFICULTY; MOTION TRANSFER; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; TASK PRECISION;

HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84882670555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.7.5     Document Type: Article

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