title: Visual perceptual learning.
abstract: Perceptual learning refers to the phenomenon that practice or training in perceptual tasks often substantially improves perceptual performance. Often exhibiting stimulus or task specificities, perceptual learning differs from learning in the cognitive or motor domains. Research on perceptual learning reveals important plasticity in adult perceptual systems, and as well as the limitations in the information processing of the human observer. In this article, we review the behavioral results, mechanisms, physiological basis, computational models, and applications of visual perceptual learning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. zhonglin@usc.edu
authors.forename: Zhong-Lin
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Tianmiao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hua
authors.forename: Chang-Bing
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Yifeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Barbara Anne
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Dosher
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D025461:Feedback, Physiological / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*