Barbara Dosher is Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Sciences, University of California Irvine.
Zhong-Lin Lu is Chief Scientist, Associate Provost for Sciences, co-Director of the NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, NYU Shanghai.

Chapter 1: Principles of perceptual learning
Chapter 2: Perceptual learning in visual tasks
Chapter 3: Specificity and transfer
Chapter 4: Mechanisms of perceptual learning
Chapter 5: Physiological basis
Chapter 6: Models
Chapter 7: Feedback
Chapter 8: Modeling transfer and specificity
Chapter 9: Top-down influences of task, attention, and reward
Chapter 10: Forms of plasticity and other modalities
Chapter 11: Applications
Chapter 12: Optimization