Front Cover; The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 36; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; CHAPTER 1. LEARNING TO BRIDGE BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND COGNITION; I. Insights from Perceptual Learning; II. Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning; III. Issues in Perceptual Learning; IV. Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 2. THE AFFORDANCES OF PERCEPTUAL INQUIRY: PICTURES ARE LEARNED FROM THE WORLD, AND WHAT THAT FACT MIGHT MEAN ABOUT PERCEPTION QUITE GENERALLY; I. Pictures Don't Necessarily Need Training; II. Depth-free Seeing in World and Pictures
CHAPTER 5. INFANT SPEECH PERCEPTION: PROCESSING CHARACTERISTICS, REPRESENTATIONAL UNITS, AND THE LEARNING OF WORDSI. Introduction; II. Basic Processing Characteristics of Young Infants; III. The Processing and Representational Units of Speech; IV. The Representation and Segmentation of Speech by Infants; V. The Representation and Segmentation of Speech by Adults: Studies of Syllable Monitoring; VI. Studies of Attentional Allocation to Syllabic Structures in Adult Listeners; VII. The Beginnings of a Lexicon; VIII. Conclusions; References
CHAPTER 6. CONSTRAINTS ON THE LEARNING OF SPATIAL TERMS: A COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATIONI. Introduction; II. What Does 'Above' Mean?; III. Negative Evidence; IV. Motion and Result Emphasis; V. Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 7. LEARNING TO TALK ABOUT THE PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS: A NETWORK MODEL OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIMENSIONS; I. The Developmental Data; II. Toward a Model; III. Network for Learning Dimensional Language; IV. Simulation 1: Learning Property Names; V. Simulation 2: Learning to Selectively Attend; VI. Simulation 3: Creating a New Dimension; VII. Developmental Implications
III. The Interactive Behavior of Perceptual InquiryIV. What is Needed to Guide Visual Inquiry; V. The Gestalt Principles and the Minimum Principle: What They May Be Able to and What They Cannot Be or Do; VI. Perceived Familiar Shapes Are Sets or Strings of Figures and Not Figures' Edges; VII. Marks As Pictures: Why Outlines on Paper Can Act as Objects' Edges; VIII. Summary; References; CHAPTER 3. PERCEPTUAL LEARNING OF ALPHANUMERIC-LIKE CHARACTERS; I. Perception vs. Learning; II. Perceptual Learning vs. Other Types of Learning; III. Visual Search
IV. A Study of Perceptual Learning in Visual SearchV. The Effects of Training; VI. What Has Been Learned?; VII. What Are the Features?; VIII. Does the Process of Unitization Produce a Distinctive Percept?; IX. Can any Character Be Unitized?; X. Is Unitization Equivalent to Garner Configurality?; XI. Unitization in Visual Search; XII. Summary; References; CHAPTER 4. EXPERTISE IN OBJECT AND FACE RECOGNITION; I. Object and Face Experts; II. Face Recognition as a Model of Perceptual Expertise; III. An Operational Test of the Expertise Hyphothesis; IV. Conclusions; References
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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful integration of a body of work. Key Features * Includes computational models of human learning * Provides contributions from ten leading researchers in the field * Contains interdisciplinary perspectives on perceptual learning * Synthesizes research from psychology and computer science * Focuses on the specific mechanisms that drive perceptual learning.