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Visual perceptual learning of a task-irrelevant feature of the stimulus

Galliussi, Jessica
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Grzeczkowski, Lukasz  
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Gerbino, Walter
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2016
Perception
39th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)

Awareness, focused attention, and task-relevance were thought to be necessary for perceptual learning (PL): a Feature of the Stimulus (FoS) on which participants perform a task is learned, while a task-irrelevant FoS is not learned. This view has been challenged by the discovery of taskirrelevant PL, occurring for subthreshold task-irrelevant stimuli presented at an unattended, peripheral location. Here, we proof further evidence for task-irrelevant PL by showing that it can occur for subthreshold task-irrelevant FoS presented in the fovea (hence spatially attended). Our experiment was divided into 3 stages: pre-test, training, and post-test. During pre- and posttests, participants performed a 3-dot Vernier task and a 3-dot bisection task. During training, participants performed an unrelated task (luminance discrimination) on the same stimulus. The task-irrelevant FoS, manipulated during training, was the position of the middle dot: either a subthreshold left/right offset (Experimental Group) or in perfect alignment with the outer dots (Control Group). The Experimental Group showed performance improvements in the Vernier task but not in the bisection task; while the Control Group showed no effect on performance in either task. We suggest that PL can occur as an effect of mere exposure to a subthreshold taskirrelevant FoS, which is spatially attended.

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conference paper
Web of Science ID

WOS:000390215900657

Author(s)
Galliussi, Jessica
Grzeczkowski, Lukasz  
Gerbino, Walter
Herzog, Michael  
Bernardis, Paolo
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd

Publisher place

London

Published in
Perception
Total of pages

1

Volume

45

Issue

Supplement 2

Start page

321

URL

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https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006616671273
Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
39th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)

Barcelona, Spain

Aug 28 - Sep 1, 2016

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January 24, 2017
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