title: Does perceptual learning suffer from retrograde interference?
abstract: In motor learning, training a task B can disrupt improvements of performance of a previously learned task A, indicating that learning needs consolidation. An influential study suggested that this is the case also for visual perceptual learning. Using the same paradigm, we failed to reproduce these results. Further experiments with bisection stimuli also showed no retrograde disruption from task B on task A. Hence, for the tasks tested here, perceptual learning does not suffer from retrograde interference.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Psychophysics, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. kristoffer.aberg@epfl.ch
authors.forename: Kristoffer C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Aberg
authors.forename: Michael H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Herzog
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014796:Visual Perception