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Gaining knowledge mediates changes in perception (without differences in attention): A case for perceptual learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Lauren L. Emberson
Lauren L. Emberson*
Affiliation:
Peretsman-Scully Hall, Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. [email protected]://psych.princeton.edu/person/lauren-emberson
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Abstract

Firestone & Scholl (F&S) assert that perceptual learning is not a top-down effect, because experience-mediated changes arise from familiarity with the features of the object through simple repetition and not knowledge about the environment. Emberson and Amso (2012) provide a clear example of perceptual learning that bypasses the authors' “pitfalls” and in which knowledge, not repeated experience, results in changes in perception.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e240
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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