Recent work has transformed our ideas about the neural mechanisms, behavioral
consequences and effective therapies for amblyopia. Since the 1700′ s, the clinical …

Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

Humans have the metacognitive ability to judge the accuracy of their own decisions via
confidence ratings. A substantial body of research has demonstrated that human …

The visual expertise of adult humans is jointly determined by evolution, visual development
and visual perceptual learning. Perceptual learning refers to performance improvements in …

Context The COVID-19 pandemic led to shutting of education faculties, including clinical
clerkships for medical students. Objective To review a selective for a course in diagnostic …

Highlights•Perceptual Learning research has identified numerous processes that change
with learning.•Identified mechanisms of Perceptual Learning are not mutually …

Metacognitive efficiency quantifies people's ability to introspect into their own decision
making relative to their ability to perform the primary task. Despite years of research, it is still …

It is generally thought that children learn more efficiently than adults. One way to accomplish
this is to have learning rapidly stabilized such that it is not interfered with by subsequent …

Numerous behavioral studies have shown that visual function can improve with training,
although perceptual refinements generally require weeks to months of training to attain …

Vision and learning have long been considered to be two areas of research linked only
distantly. However, recent developments in vision research have changed the conceptual …