Two-stage model in perceptual learning: Toward a unified theory

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1316, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-28

  Shibata, Kazuhisa ^a   Sagi, Dov ^b   Watanabe, Takeo ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Perceptual learning; Plasticity; Two stage model; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROIMAGING; PLASTICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PLASTICITY; TWO-STAGE MODEL; VISION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84901474183     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12419     Document Type: Article

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