猫正弦光栅方位辨别和对比度检测知觉学习的研究-动物学专业毕业论文.docxVIP

The Perceptual Learning in Sinusoidal Gratings Orientation Discrimination and Contrast Detection in Cat Abstract The performance of visual perception can be improved by repeat training. Through analyzing the model of animal perceptual learning, and with the method of electrophysiology, cell and molecular biology, morphology and functional imaging techniques, we can probe the mechanism of learning and memory. In this paper, we introduced the method and set of cat perceptual learning and research the character of orientation discrimination and contrast detection of cat, and we also research the effect of visual perceptual learning on the response of the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus(dLGN) neuron with the method of single-neuron in vivo recording techniques, by which to the ends of knowing the mechanism of neuron in the perceptual learning. Perceptual learning in orientation discrimination and contrast detection was first observed by psychophysics method in cat in the following two experiments. The effect of perceptual learning is obvious: the performance is greatly improved after repeat training. However there are different end we observed between the two experiments. In the contrast sensitivity discrimination task, monocular learning could significantly improve contrast sensitivity for both eyes, which was spatial frequency dependence. But there was a significant inter-eye difference, which is that the contrast of sensation of trained eye is proved more than untrained eye, indicating an incomplete but evident inter-eye transfer of the learning. In the orientation perceptual learning experiment, there are no obvious inter eye transfer between the training eye and the untraining one while in detection of orientations with consecutively changing difference task, but it is reverse in the discrimination on fixed orientation. The partial inter-eye transfer of contrast detection task and SF-tuned specificity of learning in cats are similar to that observed in human sub