Assessing the functions underlying learning using by-trial and by-participant models: Evidence from two visual perceptual learning paradigms.

ABSTRACT: Inferred mechanisms of learning, such as those involved in improvements resulting from perceptual training, are reliant on (and reflect) the functional forms that models of learning take. However, previous investigations of the functional forms of perceptual learning have been limited in ways that are incompatible with the known mechanisms of learning. For instance, previous work has overwhelmingly aggregated learning data across learning participants, learning trials, or both. Here we approach the study of the functional form of perceptual learning on the by-person and by-trial levels at which the mechanisms of learning are expected to act. Each participant completed one of two visual perceptual learning tasks over the course of two days, with the first 75% of task performance using a sin

SUBMITTER: Cochrane A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8684311 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature