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The fact that they are the product of learned modes of perception is not evident to us, for such perceptual practices have become habitual and are resistant to change.
The matter becomes more complex once we also recognise that the affective salience which our bodies bear may not be available to reflective scrutiny, but nonetheless reveals itself in the habitual perceptual practices to which Alcoff drew our attention.
Such changes require that people are brought to view their own bodies and the bodies of others in a different way: "perceptual practices are dynamic even when congealed into habit … people are capable of change" (189).
Despite the polarising and often damaging consequences of the perceptual practices which Alcoff draws our attention to, she remains optimistic about the possibilities for change, though stressing the difficulties of even bringing these practices into view.
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Evan Fales argues that "crosscheckability" is an integral part of any successful perceptual epistemic practice.
To test this, we provided two groups of novice golfers who made consistent and systematic directional errors feedback about the direction and magnitude of the error, while they were either practicing golf putting or practicing perceptual judgments.
On virtually any perceptual task, daily practice will improve thresholds so that subjects effectively improve their perceptual acuity.
The findings with regard to the perception of the direction of the perfect aiming line were similar, although the increase in perceptual accuracy during practice seemed to occur much more rapidly than for putting.
You won't make much progress forcing children through boring exercises, and there's no need to – you can practice perceptual reasoning and have fun at the same time.
The representation modification hypothesis of perceptual learning attributes the practice-induced improvements in sensitivity and/or discriminability to changes in the early visual areas.
Visually guided behavior depends on (1) extracting and (2) discriminating signals from complex retinal inputs, and these perceptual skills improve with practice [ 1].
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