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Task Specificity

Task Specificity is a principle within perceptual learning denoting the extent to which improvements in perceptual performance are restricted to the specific stimuli, tasks, or conditions experienced during training, distinguishing it from generalizable learning effects that transfer across dissimilar tasks or modalities.

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The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks

Mattia Rigotti, Omri Barak, Melissa R. Warden et al. · Nature · 2013 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Broad domain generality in focal regions of frontal and parietal cortex

Evelina Fedorenko, John Duncan, Nancy Kanwisher · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Task difficulty and the specificity of perceptual learning

Merav Ahissar, Shaul Hochstein · Nature · 1997 · 836 citations

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Task combination and selective intake of information

Donald E. Broadbent · Acta Psychologica · 1982 · 617 citations

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P300 and Tracking Difficulty: Evidence For Multiple Resources in Dual‐Task Performance

Jack B. Isreal, Gregory L. Chesney, Christopher D. Wickens et al. · Psychophysiology · 1980 · 579 citations

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    Aaron R. Seitz

    University of California, Riverside, United States

    6 publications · 177 citations

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    Phillip L. Ackerman

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

    4 publications · 210 citations

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  3. EH
    Eliot Hazeltine

    University of Iowa, United States

    4 publications · 264 citations

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    Lee R. Brooks

    McMaster University, Canada

    4 publications · 113 citations

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    Takeo Watanabe

    Brown University, United States

    3 publications · 106 citations

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Institutions

421

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    4.3K citations

  2. Vanderbilt University

    Nashville, United States

    6 h-index

    17 publications

    2.6K citations

  3. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    435 citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    1.9K citations

  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    7.5K citations

  6. Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    Trondheim, Norway

    5 h-index

    15 publications

    589 citations

  7. University of Tübingen

    Tübingen, Germany

    5 h-index

    22 publications

    644 citations

  8. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    319 citations

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  2. Journal of Vision

    11 publications · 640 citations

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  4. Memory & Cognition

    8 publications · 305 citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    7 publications · 184 citations

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