Temporal perceptual learning

Timing and Time Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 261-289

  Bueti, Domenica ^a   Buonomano, Dean V ^b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptual and motor learning; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 85003760581     PISSN: 2213445X     EISSN: 22134468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22134468-00002023     Document Type: Review

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