Stimulus uncertainty and perceptual learning: Similar principles govern auditory and visual learning

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 391-401

  Nahum, Mor ^a   Nelken, Israel ^a   Ahissar, Merav ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Auditory; Binaural benefit; Perceptual learning; Protocol; Reverse hierarchy theory; Temporal patterning; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955681910     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Adini, Y., Wilkonsky, A., Haspel, R., Tsodyks, M., & Sagi, D. (2004). Perceptual learning in contrast discrimination: The effect of contrast uncertainty. Journal of Vision, 4, 993-1005.
2. Ahissar, M., & Hochstein, S. (1997). Task difficulty and the specificity of perceptual learning. Nature, 387, 401-406.
3. Ahissar, M., & Hochstein, S. (2000). The spread of attention and learning in feature search: effects of target distribution and task difficulty. Vision Research, 40(10- 12), 1349-1364.
4. Ahissar, M., & Hochstein, S. (2004). The reverse hierarchy theory of visual perceptual learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 457-464.
5. Ahissar, M., Nahum, M., Nelken, I., & Hochstein, S. (2009). Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 364(1515), 285-299.
6. Amitay, S., Hawkey, D. J., & Moore, D. R. (2005). Auditory frequency discrimination learning is affected by stimulus variability. Perception and Psychophysics, 67, 691-698.
7. Amitay, S., Irwin, A., & Moore, D. R. (2006). Discrimination learning induced by training with identical stimuli. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 1446-1448.
8. Ball, K., & Sekuler, R. (1987). Direction-specific improvement in motion discrimination. Vision Research, 27(6), 953-965.
9. Batra, R., Kuwada, S., & Fitzpatrick, D. C. (1997a). Sensitivity to interaural temporal disparities of low- and high-frequency neurons in the superior olivary complex. I. Heterogeneity of responses. Journal of Neurophysiology, 78, 1222-1236.
10. Batra, R., Kuwada, S., & Fitzpatrick, D. C. (1997b). Sensitivity to interaural temporal disparities of low- and high-frequency neurons in the superior olivary complex. II. Coincidence detection. Journal of Neurophysiology, 78, 1237-1247.
11. Blauert, J. (1997). Spatial hearing: The psychophysics of human sound localization. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
12. Blauert, J., & Cobben, W. (1978). Some consideration of binaural cross correlation analysis. Acustica, 39, 96-103.
13. Delhommeau, K., Micheyl, C., Jouvent, R., & Collet, L. (2002). Transfer of learning across durations and ears in auditory frequency discrimination. Perception and Psychophysics, 64, 426-436.
14. Demany, L. (1985). Perceptual learning in frequency discrimination. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 78, 1118-1120.
15. Dreschler, W. A., Verschuure, H., Ludvigsen, C., & Westermann, S. (2001). ICRA noises: Artificial noise signals with speech-like spectral and temporal properties for hearing instrument assessment. Audiology, 40, 148-157.
16. Dosher, B. A., & Lu, Z. L. (1999). Mechanisms of perceptual learning. Vision Research, 39(19), 3197-3221.
17. Fahle, M. (2005). Perceptual learning: Specificity versus generalization. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 15, 154-160.
18. Fahle, M., Edelman, S., & Poggio, T. (1995). Fast perceptual learning in hyperacuity. Vision Research, 35, 3003-3013.
19. Fahle, M., & Morgan, M. (1996). No transfer of perceptual learning between similar stimuli in the same retinal position. Current Biology, 6(3), 292-297.
20. Fiorentini, A., & Berardi, N. (1980). Perceptual learning specific for orientation and spatial frequency. Nature, 287, 43-44.
21. Furmanski, C. S., Schluppeck, D., & Engel, S. A. (2004). Learning strengthens the response of primary visual cortex to simple patterns. Current Biology, 14, 573-578.
22. Hirsch, I. (1948). The influence of interaural phase on interaural summation and inhibition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 20, 536-544.
23. Hochstein, S., & Ahissar, M. (2002). View from the top: Hierarchies and reverse hierarchies in the visual system. Neuron, 36, 791-804.
24. Irvine, D. R. F., Martin, R. L., Klimkeit, E., & Smith, R. (2000). Specificity of perceptual learning in a frequency discrimination task. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108(6), 2964-2968.
25. Jeter, P. E., Dosher, B. A., Petrov, A., & Lu, Z. (2009). Task precision at transfer determines specificity of perceptual learning. Journal of Vision, 9(3), 1-13.
26. Johansson, M. S., & Arlinger, S. D. (2002). Binaural masking level difference for speech signals in noise. International Journal of Audiology, 41, 279-284.
27. Karmarkar, U. R., & Buonomano, D. V. (2003). Temporal specificity of perceptual learning in an auditory discrimination task. Learning and Memory, 10, 141-147.
28. Karni, A., & Sagi, D. (1991). Where practice makes perfect in texture discrimination: Evidence for primary visual cortex plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 88(11), 4966-4970.
29. Karni, A., & Sagi, D. (1993). The time course of learning a visual skill. Nature, 365(6443), 250-252.
30. Kuai, S. G., Zhang, J. Y., Klein, S. A., Levi, D. M., & Yu, C. (2005). The essential role of stimulus temporal patterning in enabling perceptual learning. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1497-1499.
31. Levitt, H. (1971). Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 49, 467-477.
32. Levitt, H., & Rabiner, L. R. (1967). Binaural release from masking for speech and gain in intelligibility. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 42, 601-608.
33. Licklider, J. (1948). The influence of interaural phase relation upon the masking of speech by white noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 20, 150-159.
34. Liu, Z. (1999). Perceptual learning in motion discrimination that generalizes across motion directions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 96(24), 14085-14087.
35. Nahum, M., Daikhin, L., Lubin, Y., Cohen, Y., & Ahissar, M. (submitted for publication). From comparison to classification-a cortical tool for boosting perception.
36. Nelken, I., & Ahissar, M. (2006). High-level and low-level processing in the auditory system: The role of primary auditory cortex. In P. Divenyi, S. Greenberg, & G. Meyer (Eds.), Dynamics of speech production and perception (pp. 343-354). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
37. Nygaard, L. C., & Pisoni, D. B. (1998). Talker-specific learning in speech perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 60, 355-376.
38. Parkosadze, K., Otto, T. U., Malania, M., Kezeli, A., & Herzog, M. H. (2008). Perceptual learning of bisection stimuli under roving: Slow and largely specific. Journal of Vision, 8(5), 1-8.
39. Poggio, T., Fahle, M., & Edelman, S. (1992). Fast perceptual learning in visual hyperacuity. Science, 256, 1018-1021.
40. Saffell, T., & Matthews, N. (2003). Task specific perceptual learning on speed and direction discrimination. Vision Research, 43, 1365-1374.
41. Schoups, A., Vogels, R., & Orban, G. A. (1995). Human perceptual learning in identifying the oblique orientation: Retinotopy, orientation specificity and monocularity. Journal of Physiology, 483(3), 797-810.
42. Schoups, A. A., & Orban, G. A. (1996). Interocular transfer in perceptual learning of a pop-out discrimination task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 93(14), 7358-7362.
43. Schoups, A., Vogels, R., Qian, N., & Orban, G. (2001). Practising orientation identification improves orientation coding in V1 neurons. Nature, 412(6846), 549-553.
44. Shannon, R. V., Zeng, F., Kamath, V., Wygonski, J., & Ekelid, M. (1995). Speech recognition with primarily temporal cues. Science, 270(5234), 303-304.
45. Shiu, L. P., & Pashler, H. (1992). Improvement in line orientation discrimination is retinally local but dependent on cognitive set. Perception and Psychophysics, 52, 582-588.
46. van Wassenhove, V., & Nagarajan, S. S. (2007). Auditory cortical plasticity in learning to discriminate modulation rate. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(10), 2663-2672.
47. Wright, B. A., Buonomano, D. V., Mahncke, H. W., & Merzenich, M. M. (1997). Learning and generalization of auditory temporal-interval discrimination in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 17(10), 3956-3963.
48. Yin, T. C., & Chan, J. C. (1990). Interaural time sensitivity in medial superior olive of cat. Journal of Neurophysiology, 64, 465-488.
49. Yu, C., Klein, S. A., & Levi, D. M. (2004). Perceptual learning in contrast discrimination and the (minimal) role of context. Journal of Vision, 4, 169-182.
50. Zhang, J. Y., Kuai, S. G., Xiao, L. Q., Klein, S. A., Levi, D. M., & Yu, C. (2008). Stimulus coding rules for perceptual learning. PLoS Biology, 6, 1651-1660.