Perceptual learning improves discrimination while distorting appearance
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TL;DR: It is found that while training improves discrimination ability, it leads to increases in appearance distortion, and a model of how distortions of appearance can arise from increased precision of neural representations and serve to enhance distinctions between perceptual categories is proposed.
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Abstract: Perceptual sensitivity often improves with training, a phenomenon known as ‘perceptual learning’. Another important perceptual dimension is appearance, the subjective sense of stimulus magnitude. Are training-induced improvements in sensitivity accompanied by more accurate appearance? Here, we examine this question by measuring both discrimination and estimation capabilities for nearhorizontal motion perception, before and after training. Observers trained on either discrimination or estimation exhibited improved sensitivity, along with increases in already-large estimation biases away from horizontal. To explain this counterintuitive finding, we developed a computational observer model in which perceptual learning arises from changes in the precision of underlying neural representations. For each observer, the fitted model accounted for both discrimination performance and the distribution of estimates, and their changes after training. Our empirical findings and modeling suggest that learning enhances distinctions between categories, a potentially important aspect of real-world perception and perceptual learning.
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