Perceptual Learning: How Experience Shapes Visual Perception

by Barbara Dosher, Zhong-Lin Lu

Overview

A comprehensive and integrated introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain.

Practice or training in perceptual tasks improves the quality of perceptual performance, often by a substantial amount. This improvement is called perceptual learning (in contrast to learning in the cognitive or motor domains), and it has become an active area of research of both theoretical and practical significance. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262360654
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	68 MB
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About the Author

Barbara Dosher is Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Sciences, University of California Irvine.

Zhong-Lin Lu is Chief Scientist, Associate Provost for Sciences, co-Director of the NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, NYU Shanghai.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Principles of perceptual learning
Chapter 2: Perceptual learning in visual tasks
Chapter 3: Specificity and transfer
Chapter 4: Mechanisms of perceptual learning
Chapter 5: Physiological basis
Chapter 6: Models
Chapter 7: Feedback
Chapter 8: Modeling transfer and specificity
Chapter 9: Top-down influences of task, attention, and reward
Chapter 10: Forms of plasticity and other modalities
Chapter 11: Applications
Chapter 12: Optimization