Perceptual Learning at a Conceptual Level

Overview

Journal J Neurosci

Specialty Neurology

Date 2016 Feb 19

PMID 26888933

Citations 28

Authors

Rui Wang

Jie Wang

Jun-Yun Zhang

Xin-Yu Xie

Yu-Xiang Yang

Shu-Han Luo

Cong Yu

Wu Li

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Abstract

Significance Statement: Training in object recognition can produce a learning effect that is applicable to new viewing conditions or even to new objects with different physical properties. However, perceptual learning has long been regarded as a low-level form of learning because of its specificity to the trained stimulus conditions. Here we demonstrate with new training tactics that visual perceptual learning is completely transferrable between distinct physical stimuli. This finding indicates that perceptual learning also operates at a conceptual level in a stimulus-invariant manner.

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