Bottom-up and top-down factors of motion direction learning transfer
Authors: Zhang, Y., Yuan, Y.F., He, X. and Zhang, G.L.
Journal: Consciousness and Cognition
Volume: 74
eISSN: 1090-2376
ISSN: 1053-8100
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102780
Abstract:Perceptual learning of motion discrimination has long been believed to be motion direction specific. However, recent studies using a double-training paradigm, in which the to-be-transferred condition was experienced through practicing an irrelevant task, found that perceptual learning in various visual tasks, including motion direction discrimination, can transfer completely to new conditions. This transfer occurred when the transfer stimulus was subconsciously presented, or when top-down attention was allocated to the transfer stimulus (which was absent). In the current study, observers were exposed subconsciously, or directed top-down attention, to the transfer motion direction, either simultaneously or successively with training. Data showed that motion direction learning transferred to the transfer direction, and suggest that motion direction learning specificity may result from under-activations of untrained visual neurons due to insufficient bottom-up stimulation and/or lack of top-down attention during training. These results shed new light on the neural mechanisms underlying motion perceptual learning and provide a constraint for models of motion perceptual learning.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32522/
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Bottom-up and top-down factors of motion direction learning transfer.
Authors: Zhang, Y., Yuan, Y.-F., He, X. and Zhang, G.-L.
Journal: Conscious Cogn
Volume: 74
Pages: 102780
eISSN: 1090-2376
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102780
Abstract:Perceptual learning of motion discrimination has long been believed to be motion direction specific. However, recent studies using a double-training paradigm, in which the to-be-transferred condition was experienced through practicing an irrelevant task, found that perceptual learning in various visual tasks, including motion direction discrimination, can transfer completely to new conditions. This transfer occurred when the transfer stimulus was subconsciously presented, or when top-down attention was allocated to the transfer stimulus (which was absent). In the current study, observers were exposed subconsciously, or directed top-down attention, to the transfer motion direction, either simultaneously or successively with training. Data showed that motion direction learning transferred to the transfer direction, and suggest that motion direction learning specificity may result from under-activations of untrained visual neurons due to insufficient bottom-up stimulation and/or lack of top-down attention during training. These results shed new light on the neural mechanisms underlying motion perceptual learning and provide a constraint for models of motion perceptual learning.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32522/
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Bottom-up and top-down factors of motion direction learning transfer
Authors: Zhang, Y., Yuan, Y.-F., He, X. and Zhang, G.-L.
Journal: CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
Volume: 74
eISSN: 1090-2376
ISSN: 1053-8100
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102780
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32522/
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Bottom-up and top-down factors of motion direction learning transfer
Authors: Zhang, Y., Yuan, Y.-F., He, X. and Zhang, G.-L.
Journal: Consciousness and Cognition
Volume: 74
Pages: 102780
ISSN: 1053-8100
Abstract:Perceptual learning of motion discrimination has long been believed to be motion direction specific. However, recent studies using a double-training paradigm, in which the to-be-transferred condition was experienced through practicing an irrelevant task, found that perceptual learning in various visual tasks, including motion direction discrimination, can transfer completely to new conditions. This transfer occurred when the transfer stimulus was subconsciously presented, or when top-down attention was allocated to the transfer stimulus (which was absent).
In the current study, observers were exposed subconsciously, or directed top-down attention, to the transfer motion direction, either simultaneously or successively with training. Data showed that motion direction learning transferred to the transfer direction, and suggest that motion direction learning specificity may result from under-activations of untrained visual neurons due to insufficient bottom-up stimulation and/or lack of top-down attention during training. These results shed new light on the neural mechanisms underlying motion perceptual learning and provide a constraint for models of motion perceptual learning.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32522/
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Bottom-up and top-down factors of motion direction learning transfer.
Authors: Zhang, Y., Yuan, Y.-F., He, X. and Zhang, G.-L.
Journal: Consciousness and cognition
Volume: 74
Pages: 102780
eISSN: 1090-2376
ISSN: 1053-8100
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102780
Abstract:Perceptual learning of motion discrimination has long been believed to be motion direction specific. However, recent studies using a double-training paradigm, in which the to-be-transferred condition was experienced through practicing an irrelevant task, found that perceptual learning in various visual tasks, including motion direction discrimination, can transfer completely to new conditions. This transfer occurred when the transfer stimulus was subconsciously presented, or when top-down attention was allocated to the transfer stimulus (which was absent). In the current study, observers were exposed subconsciously, or directed top-down attention, to the transfer motion direction, either simultaneously or successively with training. Data showed that motion direction learning transferred to the transfer direction, and suggest that motion direction learning specificity may result from under-activations of untrained visual neurons due to insufficient bottom-up stimulation and/or lack of top-down attention during training. These results shed new light on the neural mechanisms underlying motion perceptual learning and provide a constraint for models of motion perceptual learning.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32522/
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Bottom-up and top-down factors of motion direction learning transfer
Authors: Zhang, Y., Yuan, Y.-F., He, X. and Zhang, G.-L.
Journal: Consciousness and Cognition
Volume: 74
Issue: September
Abstract:Perceptual learning of motion discrimination has long been believed to be motion direction specific. However, recent studies using a double-training paradigm, in which the to-be-transferred condition was experienced through practicing an irrelevant task, found that perceptual learning in various visual tasks, including motion direction discrimination, can transfer completely to new conditions. This transfer occurred when the transfer stimulus was subconsciously presented, or when top-down attention was allocated to the transfer stimulus (which was absent).
In the current study, observers were exposed subconsciously, or directed top-down attention, to the transfer motion direction, either simultaneously or successively with training. Data showed that motion direction learning transferred to the transfer direction, and suggest that motion direction learning specificity may result from under-activations of untrained visual neurons due to insufficient bottom-up stimulation and/or lack of top-down attention during training. These results shed new light on the neural mechanisms underlying motion perceptual learning and provide a constraint for models of motion perceptual learning.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32522/
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