Perceptual Learning Av Barbara Dosher

<b>A comprehensive and integrated introduction to the phenomena and theories of perceptual learning, focusing on the visual domain.</b><p>Practice or training in perceptual tasks improves the quality of perceptual performance, often by a substantial amount. This improvement is called <i>perceptual learning</i> (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. <br><i>Perceptual Learning</i> explores the tradeoff between the competing goals of system stability and system adaptability, signal and noise, retuning and reweighting, and top-down versus bottom-down processes. It examines and evaluates existing research and potential future directions, including evidence from behavior, physiology, and brain imaging, and existing perceptual learning applications, w