Perceptual Skills

Abstract

This chapter has four parts. Section 25.1 distinguishes some types of perceptual skills and highlights their importance in everyday perception. Next, Section 25.2 identifies a well-studied class of perceptual skills: cases of perceptual expertise. Section 25.3 discusses a less studied possible instance of perceptual skill: picture perception. Finally, Section 25.4 outlines some important mechanisms underlying perceptual skills, with special emphasis on attention and mental imagery.

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