Perceptual learning refers to experience-induced improvements in the pick-up of information. Perceptual constancy describes the fact that, despite variable sensory input, perceptual representations ...

Our visual perception of the world is often thought of as relatively stable. However, like all of our cognitive functions, visual processing is shaped by our experiences. During both development and ...

Practice results in better learning. Consider learning a musical instrument, for example: the more one practices, the better one will be able to learn to play. The same holds true for cognition and ...

Concept learning in nursery-school and second-grade children was investigated in relation to immediately preceding learning conditions. Positive transfer resulted when perceptual arrangement ...

If you're always scoring 100%, you're probably not learning anything new. Research found that the 'sweet spot' for learning is 85%. To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. But what's the right ...

Ability to understand and subsequently speak a new language requires the ability to accurately discriminate speech sounds of a given language. When we start to learn a new language the differences ...