During pre- and post-tests participants performed a 3-dot Vernier task and a 3-dot bisection task. During training participants performed a luminance discrimination task on the same 3-dot stimulus. The task-irrelevant feature of the stimulus manipulated during training was the position of the middle dot. Our results suggest that perceptual learning can occur as a result of mere exposure to a subthreshold and task-irrelevant feature of the stimulus. The present findings add new evidence in support of task-irrelevant PL, which seems to occur not only when two different stimuli are used during test and training, but also when the same stimulus is used in both stages.

Visual perceptual learning of task-irrelevant feature of the stimulus: preliminary results

GALLIUSSI, JESSICA;GERBINO, WALTER;BERNARDIS, PAOLO
2015-01-01

Abstract

During pre- and post-tests participants performed a 3-dot Vernier task and a 3-dot bisection task. During training participants performed a luminance discrimination task on the same 3-dot stimulus. The task-irrelevant feature of the stimulus manipulated during training was the position of the middle dot. Our results suggest that perceptual learning can occur as a result of mere exposure to a subthreshold and task-irrelevant feature of the stimulus. The present findings add new evidence in support of task-irrelevant PL, which seems to occur not only when two different stimuli are used during test and training, but also when the same stimulus is used in both stages.
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