Level and mechanisms of perceptual learning: Learning first-order luminance and second-order texture objects
Level and mechanisms of perceptual learning: Learning first-order luminance and second-order texture objects
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DOI:
10.1016/j.visres.2005.11.025
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发表时间:
2006-06-01
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影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Lu, Zhong-Lin
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作者:
Dosher, Barbara Anne;Lu, Zhong-Lin
Perceptual learning is an improvement in perceptual task performance reflecting plasticity in the perceptual system. Practice effects were studied in two object orientation tasks: a first order, luminance object task and a second-order, texture object task. Perceptual learning was small or absent in the first-order task, but consistently occurred for the second-order (texture) task, where it was limited to improvements in low external noise conditions, or stimulus enhancement [Dosher, B., & Lu, Z. -L. (1998). Perceptual learning reflects external noise filtering and internal noise reduction through channel reweighting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 95 (23) 13988-13993; Dosher, B., & Lu, Z. -L. (1999). Mechanisms of perceptual learning. Vision Research, 39 (19) 3197-3221], analogous to attention effects in first- and second-order motion processing [Lu, Z. -L., Liu, C. Q., & Dosher, B. (2000). Attention mechanisms for multi-location first- and second-order motion perception. Vision Research, 40 (2) 173-186]. Perceptual learning affected the later, post-rectification, stages of perceptual analysis, possibly localized at V2 or above. It serves to amplify the stimulus relative to limiting internal noise for intrinsically noisy representations of second-order stimuli. (c) 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd.