Perceptual learning in contrast discrimination and the (minimal) role of context

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	Perceptual learning in contrast discrimination and the (minimal) role of context
	Yu, C ; Klein, SA ; Levi, DM
刊名	JOURNAL OF VISION
	2004
卷号	4 期号:3 页码:169-182
关键词	perceptual learning contrast discrimination context roving VISUAL-CORTEX SPATIAL-FREQUENCY VERNIER ACUITY HUMAN-VISION ORIENTATION NEURONS MASKING ADULTS MONKEY IDENTIFICATION
ISSN号	1534-7362
通讯作者	Yu, C (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Neurosci, Shanghai, Peoples R China,yucong@ion.ac.cn
英文摘要	Unlike most visual tasks, contrast discrimination has been reported to be unchanged by practice (Dorais Sagi, 1997; Adini, Sagi, & Tsodyks, 2002), unless practice is undertaken in the presence of flankers (context-enabled learning, Adini et a[., 2002). Here we show that under experimental conditions nearly identical to those in the no-flanker practice experiment of Adini et al. (2002), practice significantly improved contrast discrimination. Moreover, in a separate experiment, we found that practice without flankers can improve contrast discrimination to a level only reached with flankers in Adini et al. (2002), but further practice with flankers produces no further improvement of contrast discrimination. These results call into question whether the "context-enabled learning" proposed by Adini et al. (2002) is different from regular contrast learning without flankers. In separate experiments, we found that contrast learning is tuned to spatial frequency, orientation, retinal location, and, unexpectedly, contrast. We also replicated Sagi, Adini, Tsodyks, and Wilkonsky's (2003) more recent finding that no regular contrast learning occurs if reference contrasts are randomly interleaved (contrast roving), and further demonstrated that flankers have no effect on contrast learning under contrast roving, another piece of evidence equating "context-enabled learning" to regular contrast learning. The contrast specificity of learning and the lack of learning under contrast roving provide new evidence in favor of a multiple contrast-selective channels model of contrast discrimination, and against saturating transducer models and multiplicative noise models.
学科主题	Ophthalmology
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
公开日期	2012-07-23
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.sibs.ac.cn/handle/331001/1984]
专题	上海神经科学研究所_神经所(总)
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yu, C,Klein, SA,Levi, DM. Perceptual learning in contrast discrimination and the (minimal) role of context[J]. JOURNAL OF VISION,2004,4(3):169-182.
APA	Yu, C,Klein, SA,&Levi, DM.(2004).Perceptual learning in contrast discrimination and the (minimal) role of context.JOURNAL OF VISION,4(3),169-182.
MLA	Yu, C,et al."Perceptual learning in contrast discrimination and the (minimal) role of context".JOURNAL OF VISION 4.3(2004):169-182.