{"id":325,"date":"2015-03-29T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neurecall.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:23:18","slug":"recognizing-abnormalities-by-perceptual-learning-not-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/recognizing-abnormalities-by-perceptual-learning-not-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceptual learning and recognizing abnormalities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/markus-spiske-iar-afB0QQw-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" data-id=\"1915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/markus-spiske-iar-afB0QQw-unsplash-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/markus-spiske-iar-afB0QQw-unsplash-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/markus-spiske-iar-afB0QQw-unsplash-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/markus-spiske-iar-afB0QQw-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/markus-spiske-iar-afB0QQw-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/markus-spiske-iar-afB0QQw-unsplash-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/markus-spiske-iar-afB0QQw-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@markusspiske?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Markus Spiske<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/matrix-movie-still-iar-afB0QQw?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Writing in<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/29\/sunday-review\/learning-to-see-data.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em>, Benedict Carey identifies some areas in which perceptual learning has been applied:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>visualizing high-dimensional genetic data (e.g. as has been done, at least implicitly, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine)<\/li>\n<li>training pilots to quickly read controls in an airplane cockpit (by Dr. Philip Kellman, now at UCLA)<\/li>\n<li>making medical decisions (e.g. interpreting electrocardiograms, rashes, and biopsy tissue samples, all being done at UCLA\u2019s medical school)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The article also mentions other areas in which perceptual learning could be applied, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>geometrical shape identification<\/li>\n<li>botanical tree classification<\/li>\n<li>Chinese pictogram recognition<\/li>\n<li>financial trend detection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In many of these cases,\u00a0the idea has been\u00a0to develop \u201ccomputer-game-like modules that require split-second decisions\u201d. By repeated exposure to these games, a learner would gradually and automatically develop \u201ca \u2018good eye\u2019 for the material, and with it an ability to extract meaningful patterns instantaneously&#8221; &#8211; even while not necessarily knowing\u00a0<em>why<\/em> a detected pattern is unusual.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. 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