Editorial: High-Level Adaptation and Aftereffects

Frontiers in Psychology

Rocco Palumbo¹ 

关键词: aftereffects;    adaptation;    high-level adaptation;    visual cognition;    perception;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00217

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Adaptation, in sensory and perceptual science, refers to the action of a prolonged exposure of a receiver (at the cellular level a sensory receptor, at the organismic level an animal endowed with sensory organs) to an environmental stimulus. While adaptation of sensory receptors is strictly equivalent to the physiological phenomenon of a reduced electrical response by a receptor following its sustained stimulation, in this Frontiers Research Topic “adaptation” will be conceived at the organismic level, in which a wide spectrum of perceptual effects, mostly known as “aftereffects,” has been observed for more than two thousand years (Aristotle, ca 350 B.C.1). Aftereffects refer to those changes in the way a stimulus (the test) is perceived following a prolonged exposure to a previous stimulus (the adaptor). Undoubtly, for a change to be deemed relevant, a comparison must be made between the perception of the test following the presentation of the adaptor vs. the perception of the same test presented in isolation.

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