The reverse hierarchy theory of visual perceptual learning

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 457-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merav Ahissar ◽  
Shaul Hochstein
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Hierarchy Theory ◽  
Visual Perceptual Learning

scholarly journals Learning improves conscious access at the bottom, but not the top: Reverse hierarchical effects in perceptual learning and metacognition

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Chen ◽  
Matthew Mundy ◽  
Naotsugu Tsuchiya
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Hierarchy Theory ◽  
Staircase Method ◽  
Visual Perceptual Learning ◽  
Control Objective ◽  
Perceptual Performance ◽  
High Level ◽  
Metacognitive Accuracy

AbstractExperience with visual stimuli can improve their perceptual performance, a phenomenon termed visual perceptual learning (VPL), but how does VPL shape our conscious experience of learned stimuli? VPL has been found to improve measures of metacognition, suggesting increased conscious stimulus accessibility. Such studies however, have largely failed to control objective task accuracy, which typically correlates with metacognition. Here, using a staircase method to control this confound, we investigated whether VPL improves the metacognitive accuracy of perceptual judgements. Across three consecutive days, subjects learned to discriminate faces based on either their identity or contrast. Holding objective accuracy constant, perceptual thresholds improved in both tasks, while metacognitive accuracy diverged, with face contrast VPL improving metacognition, and face identity VPL failing to. Our findings can be interpreted in a reverse hierarchy theory-like model of VPL, which counterintuitively predicts that the VPL of low- but not high-level stimulus properties should improve conscious stimulus accessibility.

scholarly journals Neural plasticity underlying visual perceptual learning in aging

2015 ◽  
Vol 1612 ◽  
pp. 140-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Mishra ◽  
Camarin Rolle ◽  
Adam Gazzaley
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Visual Perceptual Learning

VISUAL PERCEPTUAL LEARNING

Vision ◽  
2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICOLETTA BERARDI ◽  
ADRIANA FIORENTINI
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Visual Perceptual Learning

scholarly journals 0232 REM SLEEP STABILIZES VISUAL PERCEPTUAL LEARNING WHICH WAS RENDERED FRAGILE BY NREM SLEEP

SLEEP ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. A85-A85 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Tamaki ◽  
T Watanabe ◽  
Y Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Rem Sleep ◽  
Nrem Sleep ◽  
Visual Perceptual Learning

scholarly journals Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning

2008 ◽  
Vol 364 (1515) ◽  
pp. 285-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merav Ahissar ◽  
Mor Nahum ◽  
Israel Nelken ◽  
Shaul Hochstein
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Special Populations ◽  
Hierarchy Theory ◽  
Training Techniques ◽  
Sensory Learning ◽  
Perceptual Representations ◽  
The Brain

Revealing the relationships between perceptual representations in the brain and mechanisms of adult perceptual learning is of great importance, potentially leading to significantly improved training techniques both for improving skills in the general population and for ameliorating deficits in special populations. In this review, we summarize the essentials of reverse hierarchy theory for perceptual learning in the visual and auditory modalities and describe the theory's implications for designing improved training procedures, for a variety of goals and populations.

scholarly journals Interference and feature specificity in visual perceptual learning

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (21) ◽  
pp. 2611-2623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuko Yotsumoto ◽  
Li-hung Chang ◽  
Takeo Watanabe ◽  
Yuka Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Visual Perceptual Learning

106. Parietal cortex involvement in visual perceptual learning: A rTMS investigation

2016 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. e156-e157
Author(s):  
F. Giovannelli ◽  
M. Bartolucci ◽  
A. Borgheresi ◽  
D. Battista ◽  
E. Del Sordo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Parietal Cortex ◽  
Visual Perceptual Learning
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