Perceptual learning : the flexibility of the senses / by Kevin Connolly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connolly, Kevin (Cognitive scientist), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perceptual learning.

Senses and sensation.

Cognitive neuroscience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Flexibility of the senses

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning - that is, long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience. Philosophers have been discussing such cases for centuries, from the 14th-century Indian philosopher Vedanta Desika to the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid to a great many contemporary philosophers. This text uses recent evidence from psychology and neuroscience to show that perceptual learning is genuinely perceptual, rather than post-perceptual.

Contents:

Part 1. The Nature of Perceptual Learning

How to Understand Perceptual Learning

Introduction

What Is Perceptual Learning?

A Taxonomy of Perceptual Learning Cases

The Offloading View of Perceptual Learning

Looking Ahead

Is Perceptual Learning Genuinely Perceptual?

Introduction

Skepticism about Perceptual Learning as Genuinely Perceptual

Introspective Evidence that Perceptual Learning Is Genuinely Perceptual

Neuroscientific Evidence that Perceptual Learning Is Genuinely Perceptual

Behavioral Evidence that Perceptual Learning Is Genuinely Perceptual

Conclusion

Part 2. The Scope of Perceptual Learning

Learned Attention and the Contents of Perception

The Phenomenal Contrast Argument

The Attentional Reply to the Phenomenal Contrast Argument

The Blind Flailing Model of Perceptual Learning

A New Attentional Reply to the Phenomenal Contrast Argument

Learned Attention and the Offloading View

Learned Attention II: Sensory Substitutions

Attentional Weighting in Distal Attribution

Latent Inhibition as a Kind of Learned Attention

Applying Principles of Attentional Training to Sensory Substitution

Perceptual Learning and Perceptual Hacking

An Empirical Test for Determining the Nature of SSD Experience

Chunking? The World Through Multisensory Perception

The Kind of Conscious Awareness We Have in Multisensory Perception

Unitization as a Perceptual Learning Mechanism

Applying Unitization to Multisensory Cases

Objections and Replies

Unitization and the Offloading View

Learning to Differentiate Properties: Speech Perception

The Phenomenal Contrast Argument for Hearing Meanings

The Argument from Homophones

The Role of Differentiation in Speech Perception

Why Perceptual Learning Does Not Support the View that We Hear Meanings

The Offloading View and Speech Perception

Learning to Differentiate Objects: The Case of Memory Color

Memory Color and Cognitive Penetration

A Brief Survey of Memory Color Studies

Why Memory Color Is Not a Mechanism for Color Constancy

Applying Differentiation to Memory Color

Memory Color and the Offloading View

Conclusion.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-066291-3

0-19-066292-1

0-19-066290-5