Estimating the duration of a refractory period in perceptual learning
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Alex E. Clain; Beverly A. Wright
- Source
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143:1751-1752
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Acoustics and Ultrasonics
business.industry
Refractory period
education
05 social sciences
Audiology
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Perceptual learning
Duration (music)
Medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Session (computer science)
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
- Language
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
Auditory skills improve with practice. Producing across-day learning requires a sufficient number of trials per session; additional trials in the same session produce no additional improvement. Thus, trials appear to integrate within a session to reach a learning threshold, after which there is a refractory period during which trials do not contribute to learning. The refractory period duration must be