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SUBMITTER: Garrigan P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2538906 | biostudies-other | 2008 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Garrigan Patrick P Kellman Philip J PJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080204 6
Perceptual learning refers to experience-induced improvements in the pick-up of information. Perceptual constancy describes the fact that, despite variable sensory input, perceptual representations typically correspond to stable properties of objects. Here, we show evidence of a strong link between perceptual learning and perceptual constancy: Perceptual learning depends on constancy-based perceptual representations. Perceptual learning may involve changes in early sensory analyzers, but such ch ...[more]