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Perceptual Learning - The Flexibility of the Senses (Hardcover)
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Perceptual Learning - The Flexibility of the Senses (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy of Mind Series
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Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all
undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that
result from practice or experience. Philosophers have been
discussing such cases for centuries, from the 14th-century Indian
philosopher Vedanta Desika to the 18th-century Scottish philosopher
Thomas Reid, and into contemporary times. This book uses recent
evidence from psychology and neuroscience to show that perceptual
learning is genuinely perceptual, rather than post-perceptual. It
also offers a taxonomy for classifying cases in the philosophical
literature. In some cases, perceptual learning involves changes in
how one attends; in other cases, it involves a learned ability to
differentiate two properties, or to perceive two properties as
unified. Connolly uses this taxonomy to rethink several domains of
perception in terms of perceptual learning, including multisensory
perception, color perception, and speech perception. As a whole,
the book offers a theory of the function of perceptual learning.
Perceptual learning embeds into our quick perceptual systems what
would be a slower task were it to be done in a controlled,
cognitive manner. A novice wine taster drinking a Cabernet
Sauvignon might have to think about its features first and then
infer the type of wine, while an expert can identify it
immediately. This learned ability to immediately identify the wine
enables the expert to think about other things like the vineyard or
the vintage of the wine. More generally, perceptual learning serves
to free up cognitive resources for other tasks. This book offers a
comprehensive empirically-informed account, and explores the
nature, scope, and theoretical implications of perceptual learning.
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