Perceptual Learning Readings

The following are papers that the perceptual learning reading group may be interested in covering.
     
  1. Dosher, B. A., & Zhong-Lin, L. (1999), Mechanisms of perceptual learning. Vision Research, 39, 3197-3221.
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  2. Edelman, S., & Intrator, N.Models of perceptual learning (in press).  In M. Fahle (ed).  Perceptual Learning.
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  3. Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Anderson, A. W., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J. (1999).  Activation of the middle fusiform 'face area' increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects.  Nature Neuroscience, 2, 568-573.
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  4. Gauthier, I., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J. C., & Anderson, A. W. (2000).  Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 191-197.
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  5. Gauthier, I., Williams, P., Tarr, M. J., & Tanaka, J.  Training "Greeble" experts: A framework for studying expert object recognition processes.
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  6. Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. J. (1997).  Becoming a "Greeble" expert: Exploring mechanisms for face recognition.  Vision Research, 37, 1673-1682.
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  7. Gold, J., Bennett, P. J., & Sekuler, A. B. (1999).  Signal but not noise changes with perceptual learning.  Nature, 402, 176-178.
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  8. Weiss, Y., Edelman, S., & Fahle, M. (1983). Models of perceptual learning in vernier acuity,  Neural Networks.
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  9. Gosselin, F., & Schyns, P. Bubbles: A Technique to Reveal the Use of Information in Recognition Tasks.
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  10. Gosselin, F., & Schyns, P. (submitted).  RXA=P.
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  11. Davidoff, J., Davies, I., & Roberson, D. (1999).  Colour categories in a stone-age tribe, Nature, 398, 203-204
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  12. Levin, D. (2000). Race as a Visual Feature: Using Visual Search and Perceptual Discrimination Tasks to Understand Face Categories and the Cross-Race Recognition Deficit, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 559-574.
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  13. Tanaka, J., & Curran, T. (2001).A Neural Basis for Expert Object Recognition, Psychlogical Science, 12, 43-47.

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    And, here are some other papers that I have not yet found PDF files for, but still may be of interest:
    Sowden, Davies, and Roling (2000). Perceptual Learning of the Detection of Features in X-Ray Images: A Functional Role for Improvements in Adults' Visual Sensitivity? JEP:Human Perception and Performance, Vol. 26, No. 1, 379-390.

    Kaas, J. H. (1991).  Plasticity of sensory and motor maps in adult
    mammals.  Annual Review of Neuroscience, 14, 137-167.

    Karni, A., & Sagi, D. (1993).  The time course of learning a visual
    skill.  Nature, 365, 250-252.

    Levin, D. T. (1996).  Classifying faces by race: The structure of face
    categories.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and
    Cognition, 22, 1364-1382.

    An elemental model of associative learning: I. Latent inhibition and perceptual learning. By: McLaren, I.P.L.; Mackintosh, N.J.; Animal Learning & Behavior, Aug2000, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p211

    Effects of similarity and experience on discrimination learning: A nonassociative connectionist... By: Saksida,Lisa M.; Journal of Experimental Psychology / Animal Behavior Processes, Jul99, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p308

    Task difficulty and the specificity of perceptual learning. By: Ahissar, Merav; Hochstein, Shaul; Nature, 05/22/97, Vol. 387 Issue 6631, p401,

    Learning and receptive field plasticity. By: Gilbert, Charles D.; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 10/01/96

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Last updated May 21, 2001. Please send comments or corrections to rgoldsto@indiana.edu