Does perceptual learning suffer from retrograde interference?

PLoS One

Laboratory of Psychophysics, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Published: December 2010

In motor learning, training a task B can disrupt improvements of performance of a previously learned task A, indicating that learning needs consolidation. An influential study suggested that this is the case also for visual perceptual learning. Using the same paradigm, we failed to reproduce these results. Further experiments with bisection stimuli also showed no retrograde disruption from task B on task A. Hence, for the tasks tested here, perceptual learning does not suffer from retrograde interference.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2998421PMC
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0014161PLOS

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