Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:From our perspective, it seems the current results, along with those of Pascalis and others (Pascalis et al., 2002; Pascalis et al., 2005), are equally consistent within a framework of perceptual learning.
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