title: Gaining knowledge mediates changes in perception (without differences in attention): A case for perceptual learning.
abstract: Firestone & Scholl (F&S) assert that perceptual learning is not a top-down effect, because experience-mediated changes arise from familiarity with the features of the object through simple repetition and not knowledge about the environment. Emberson and Amso (2012) provide a clear example of perceptual learning that bypasses the authors' "pitfalls" and in which knowledge, not repeated experience, results in changes in perception.
authors.affiliation: Peretsman-Scully Hall,Psychology Department,Princeton University,Princeton,NJ 08544.lauren.emberson@princeton.eduhttps://psych.princeton.edu/person/lauren-emberson.
authors.forename: Lauren L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Emberson
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010465:Perception