Skilled perceptual learning is described as:

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Skilled perceptual learning means that with practice, the way a person interprets sensory input becomes automatic and efficient. In orientation and mobility, this shows up as the ability to pick out the most important environmental cues quickly, ignore irrelevant detail, and still perform perceptual tasks under real-world conditions. As someone gains experience, they can multitask more effectively—for example, paying attention to traffic sounds while watching for sidewalk edge features—and they can detect relevant cues even when they’re not in the foreground or are farther away. This combination of automatic processing, selective focus on salient features, and improved distant cue detection lines up with the description of skilled perceptual learning. It isn’t about simply moving through an area, substituting one sense for another, or knowing how to do something; those ideas describe different concepts.