The essential role of stimulus temporal patterning in enabling perceptual learning
- 16 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 8 (11) , 1497-1499
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1546
Abstract
Little is known about how temporal stimulus factors influence perceptual learning. Here we demonstrate an essential role of stimulus temporal patterning in enabling perceptual learning by showing that 'unlearnable' contrast and motion-direction discrimination (resulting from random interleaving of stimuli) can be readily learned when stimuli are practiced in a fixed temporal pattern. This temporal patterning does not facilitate learning by reducing stimulus uncertainty; further, learning enabled by temporal patterning can later generalize to randomly presented stimuli.Keywords
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