Research
Category learning drives cortical attentional gain to diagnostic dimensions of perceptual information
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The Brief
- A PLOS Biology article by Sahil Luthra, Raha N. Razin, Adam T. Tierney, Lori L. Holt and Frederic Dick reports that category learning drives cortical attentional gain to diagnostic dimensions of perceptual information.
- The abstract states that humans and other animals develop perceptual and cognitive specializations for identifying and differentiating ecologically important signals, and that this expertise is flexible.
Why it matters
The findings suggest that attention in the cortex is tuned to the perceptual dimensions that matter for telling categories apart, which bears on how perceptual expertise is acquired and adjusted.
Who’s affected
- neuroscientists studying perception and attention
- researchers in category learning and auditory or perceptual science
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- #attention
- #perception
- #cortex
- #neuroscience
by Sahil Luthra, Raha N. Razin, Adam T. Tierney, Lori L. Holt, Frederic Dick Humans and other animals develop remarkable perceptual and cognitive specializations for identifying, differentiating, and acting on classes of ecologically important signals. This expertise is flexible…
Timeline
Article published in PLOS Biology
PLOS Biology
Category learning drives cortical attentional gain to diagnostic dimensions of perceptual information