Mixture of easy trials enables transient and sustained perceptual improvements through priming and perceptual learning.

ABSTRACT: The sense of vision allows us to discriminate fine details across a wide range of tasks. How to improve this perceptual skill, particularly within a short training session, is of substantial interest. Emerging evidence suggests that mixing easy trials can quickly improve performance in hard trials, but it is equivocal whether the improvement is short-lived or long-lasting, and additionally what accounts for this improvement. Here, by tracking objective performance (accuracy) and subjective experience (ratings of target visibility and choice confidence) over time and in a large sample of participants, we demonstrate the coexistence of transient and sustained effects of mixing easy trials, which differ markedly in their timescales, in their effects on subjective awareness, and in individual

SUBMITTER: Lin Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5547163 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature