Although practice has long been known to improve perceptual performance, the neural
basis of this improvement in humans remains unclear. Using fMRI in conjunction with a …

Learning to better discriminate a specific visual feature (ie, a specific orientation in a specific
region of space) has been associated with plasticity in early visual areas (sensory …

Practicing simple visual detection and discrimination tasks improves performance, a
signature of adult brain plasticity. The neural mechanisms that underlie these changes in …

Visual perceptual learning models, as constrained by orientation and location specificities,
propose that learning either reflects changes in V1 neuronal tuning or reweighting specific …

Practice improves the performance in visual tasks, but mechanisms underlying this adult
brain plasticity are unclear. Single-cell studies reported no [1], weak [2], or moderate [3, 4] …

How does feature-based attention modulate neural responses? We used adaptation to
quantify the effect of feature-based attention on orientation-selective responses in human …

Visual experience plays a critical role in the development of direction-selective responses in
ferret visual cortex. In visually naive animals, presentation of a bidirectional “training” …

Cells in the animal early visual cortex are sensitive to contour orientations and form
repeated structures known as orientation columns. At the behavioral level, there exist 2 well …

Training can significantly improve performance on even the most basic visual tasks, such as
detecting a faint patch of light or determining the orientation of a bar (for reviews, see [1, 2]) …

Across sensory areas, neural microcircuits consolidate streams of information into unified
representations of the external world. In the carnivore visual cortex, where eye-specific …