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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Perceptual learning of simple visual features is well-studied.
  • Mechanisms of perceptual learning for complex object recognition remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate perceptual learning mechanisms for complex object recognition, specifically face view discrimination.
  • Determine the specificity and transferability of learned face orientation discrimination.

Main Methods:

  • Psychophysical methods were used to train subjects on discriminating in-depth face view orientations.
  • Training involved eight daily sessions over a period.
  • Sensitivity improvements were measured.

Main Results:

  • Significant improvement in sensitivity to trained face view orientation was observed.
  • Learning was highly specific to the trained orientation and persisted for up to 6 months.
  • Learning transferred across changes in face size, visual field, and identity, but showed weak transfer between upright/inverted faces and faces/objects.

Conclusions:

  • Perceptual learning of face view discrimination involves learning to compute orientation from configural information more accurately.
  • Plastic changes occur at higher visual processing levels, representing size-, location-, and identity-invariant face views.