scholarly journals Role of tactual-kinesthetic feedback in transfer of perceptual learning in the golden hamster

1972 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry S. Anton ◽  
Thomas L. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Golden Hamster ◽  
Kinesthetic Feedback

Role of Tactual-Kinesthetic Feedback in Transfer of Perceptual Learning for Rats with Pigmented Irises

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 916-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Bennett ◽  
Edward J. Rickert ◽  
Louis E. McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Early Experience ◽  
Kinesthetic Feedback

Hooded rats were pre-exposed to circles and triangles in an otherwise visually sparse environment where opportunity to manipulate the forms was varied for the early experience groups. Although early experience with these stimuli enhanced their later discriminability over that shown by control animals who received no early experience, opportunity to manipulate the forms produced no additional gain in perceptual learning relative to Ss not allowed to manipulate the pre-exposed shapes. The findings restrict the generality of the tactual-kinesthetic feedback hypothesis.

Transfer of Perceptual Learning: Role of Tactual-Kinesthetic Feedback Reexamined

1981 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Barry S. Anton ◽  
Nina I. Player ◽  
Thomas L. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Discrimination Learning ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Albino Rats ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Kinesthetic Feedback ◽  
Subsequent Discrimination

Albino rats were pre-exposed to stimuli in an otherwise visually sparse environment, with visibility and opportunity to manipulate the forms controlled during rearing. Analysis indicated that pre-exposing animals to stimuli which provided either tactual-kinesthetic feedback or highly visible forms significantly facilitated subsequent discrimination learning. The findings question the adequacy of either an attention-getting or tactual-kinesthetic feedback to account for differences in transfer effects in studies using two- and three-dimensional forms. It is suggested that the visibility of the forms and the opportunity to inspect the forms during pre-exposure is the important variable in studies of this type.

The Role of Early Perceptual Learning in Reading

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana A. Nazir ◽  
Avital Deutsch ◽  
Jonathan Grainger ◽  
Ram Frost
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning

scholarly journals The role of attentional abilities in lexically guided perceptual learning by older listeners

2014 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odette Scharenborg ◽  
Andrea Weber ◽  
Esther Janse
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning

The role of stimulus comparison in animal perceptual learning: Effects of a distractor placement

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (12) ◽  
pp. 2488-2496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio A Recio ◽  
Adela F Iliescu ◽  
Isabel de Brugada
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
Learning Effects ◽  
Stimulus Comparison ◽  
Human Research ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Effect Experiment

Research on perceptual learning shows that the way stimuli are presented leads to different outcomes. The intermixed/blocked (I/B) effect is one of these outcomes, and different mechanisms have been proposed to explain it. In human research, it seems that comparison between stimuli is important, and the placement of a distractor between the pre-exposed stimuli interferes with the effect. Results from animal research are usually interpreted in different terms because the type of procedure normally used in animal perceptual learning does not favour comparison. In our experiments, we explore the possibility that a distractor placed between the to-be-discriminated stimuli may interfere with the perceptual learning process in rats. In Experiment 1, two flavoured solutions are presented in an I/B fashion, with a short time lapse between them to favour comparison, showing the typical I/B effect. In Experiment 2, we introduced a distractor in between the solutions, abolishing this effect. Experiment 3 further replicates this by comparing two intermixed groups with or without distractor. The results replicate the findings from human research, suggesting that comparison also plays an important role in animal perceptual learning.

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