Effects of perceptual learning in children with normal vision

Abstract

While the current literature of perceptual learning focused mainly on the adult populations, our study provided novel directions by looking into effects of perceptual learning in children with normal vision. Results provided implications that (1) children could benefit from low-level discrimination tasks just as how adults do, while observer models of the perceptual template network coupled with various learning rules could possibly account for such changes. (2) Learnings from low-level discrimination tasks could not be transferred to other retinal locations, tasks or basic visual functions.