Kellman, P.J. & Garrigan, P.B. (in press). Perceptual learning and human expertise. Physics of Life Reviews.


Garrigan, P.B. & Kellman, P.J. (2008). Perceptual learning depends on perceptual constancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Vol. 105, No. 6, 2248-2253.


Kellman, P.J. (2002). Perceptual learning. In R. Gallistel (Ed.), Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology, Third edition, Vol. 3 (Learning, motivation and emotion), John Wiley & Sons, 259-299.

Basic Research and Modeling of Perceptual Learning

This work focuses on high-level perceptual learning, especially research and modeling of human abilities to discover and encode abstract relations (as in perception of a shape, a melody, or in language). We are also working to relate examples of so-called high level and low-level perceptual learning, an effort that is tending to show that, following Eleanor Gibson's classic view, selection and discovery of invariance characterize perceptual learning across levels, and even improvements that appear "low-level" and sensory involve substantial contributions of perceptual organization.

Philip J. Kellman, Everett Mettler, Ji Y. Son

Researchers




Selected Publications