Transfer of visual perceptual learning over a task-irrelevant feature through feature-invariant representations: Behavioral experiments and model simulations.

ABSTRACT: A large body of literature has examined specificity and transfer of perceptual learning, suggesting a complex picture. Here, we distinguish between transfer over variations in a "task-relevant" feature (e.g., transfer of a learned orientation task to a different reference orientation) and transfer over a "task-irrelevant" feature (e.g., transfer of a learned orientation task to a different retinal location or different spatial frequency), and we focus on the mechanism for the latter. Experimentally, we assessed whether learning a judgment of one feature (such as orientation) using one value of an irrelevant feature (e.g., spatial frequency) transfers to another value of the irrelevant feature. Experiment 1 examined whether learning in eight-alternative orientation identification with one o

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11205231 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature