title: Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. msmerava@mscc.huji.ac.il
authors.forename: Merav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ahissar
authors.forename: Mor
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nahum
authors.forename: Israel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nelken
authors.forename: Shaul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hochstein
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D011601:Psychophysics; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*