Wang Rui, Zhang Jun-Yun, Klein Stanley A, Levi Dennis M, Yu Cong
State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Vision Res. 2012 May 15;61:33-8. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.019. Epub 2011 Jul 26.
Location-specific perceptual learning can be rendered transferrable to a new location with double training, in which feature training (e.g., contrast) is accompanied by additional location training at the new location even with an irrelevant task (e.g. orientation). Here we investigated the impact of relevancy (to feature training) and demand of location training tasks on double training enabled learning transfer. We found that location training with an irrelevant task (Gabor vs. letter judgment, or contrast discrimination) limited transfer of Vernier learning to the trained orientation only. However, performing a relevant suprathreshold orthogonal Vernier task prompted additional transfer to an untrained orthogonal orientation. In addition, the amount of learning transfer may depend on the demand of location training as well as the double training procedure. These results characterize how double training potentiates the functional connections between a learned high-level decision unit and visual inputs from an untrained location to enable transfer of learning across retinal locations.
特定位置的知觉学习可以通过双重训练变得可转移到新位置,在双重训练中,特征训练(如对比度)伴随着在新位置的额外位置训练,即使是与无关任务(如方向)一起进行。在这里,我们研究了(与特征训练的)相关性以及位置训练任务的要求对双重训练促成的学习迁移的影响。我们发现,进行无关任务(如Gabor与字母判断,或对比度辨别)的位置训练仅将游标学习的迁移限制在训练的方向上。然而,执行相关的超阈值正交游标任务会促使额外的迁移到未训练的正交方向。此外,学习迁移的量可能取决于位置训练的要求以及双重训练程序。这些结果描述了双重训练如何增强所学的高级决策单元与来自未训练位置的视觉输入之间的功能连接,从而实现跨视网膜位置的学习迁移。