It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 14:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning -- learning by repeated exposure to a stimulus -- can occur by mental imagery as much as by the real thing.