News tagged with perceptual learning
Perceptual learning relies on local motion signals to learn global motion
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Researchers have long known of the brain's ability to learn based on visual motion input, and a recent study has uncovered more insight into where the learning occurs.
Reward elicits unconscious learning in humans
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A new study challenges the prevailing assumption that you must pay attention to something in order to learn it. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 12th issue of the journal Neuron, demonstrates that stimul ...
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Researchers uncover basis for perceptual learning
Aug 02, 2006 |
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The artist's trained eye can detect distinctions others can't; musicians pick up subtle changes in tone lost on the nonmusical. Brain researchers call these abilities perceptual learning.
Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systems
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated resear ...
Human concentration study is reported
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 25, 2006 |
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A U.S. study suggests multitasking is no problem for most people, but listening to more than one communication can be problematic.
How carrots help us see the color orange
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 22, 2008 |
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One of the easiest ways to identify an object is by its color -- perhaps it is because children's books encourage us to pair certain objects with their respective colors. Why else would so many of us automatically assume ...
Multi-sensory training: Faster learning
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Aug 15, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists from Boston University and UCLA say the use of multi-sensory training programs helps people improve low-level perceptual task learning.
Study finds autistics better at problem-solving
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Autistics are up to 40 percent faster at problem-solving than non-autistics, according to a new Université de Montréal and Harvard University study published in the journal Human Brain Mapping. As part of the ...
Subliminal learning demonstrated in the human brain
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Although the idea that instrumental learning can occur subconsciously has been around for nearly a century, it had not been unequivocally demonstrated. Now, a new study published by Cell Press in the August 28 issue of the ...
Sleep helps people learn complicated tasks
Nov 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks and helps people recover learning they otherwise thought they had forgotten over the course of a day, research at the University of Chicago shows.
Digital divide: Psychologists suggest ways to include the aging population in the tech revolution
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Technology is no longer what it used to be: Computers have replaced typewriters and landlines are in rapid decline. Technological advances are being made every day, making many of our lives easier and allowing information ...
'Lazy eye' treatment shows promise in adults
Mar 03, 2008 |
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New evidence from a laboratory study and a pilot clinical trial confirms the promise of a simple treatment for amblyopia, or “lazy eye,” according to researchers from the U.S. and China.
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