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Title: | Perceptual learning modulates electrophysiological and psychophysical response to visual texture segmentation in humans. |
Authors: | Casco, C Campana, G Grieco, A Fuggetta, G |
First Published: | 16-Nov-2004 |
Citation: | NEUROSCI LETT, 2004, 371 (1), pp. 18-23 |
Abstract: | We investigated the mechanisms that allow, via perceptual learning, selective modulation of a visual line-texture figure saliency in accordance with task relevance. Learning-dependent saliency increase was inferred by increased accuracy in orientation discrimination with task repetition. As a result of learning, accuracy increase was more pronounced when local and global orientation of the texture figure conflicted, and reached ceiling in both conflict and conflict-free conditions. This psychophysical effect was associated with a decrease in amplitude of negative VEP components in the configurations where global and local orientation conflicted, and to a weak increase of VEP's earliest negative component in the conflict-free condition. The VEP result is a direct demonstration that learning, in addition to increasing response of relevant channels, also reduces the weight of channels whose receptive field size and orientation tuning conflict with the task. |
DOI Link: | 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.08.005 |
ISSN: | 0304-3940 |
Links: | http://hdl.handle.net/2381/23185 |
Type: | Journal Article |
Appears in Collections: | Published Articles, School of Psychology |
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