With age and education, children become increasingly accurate in processing numerosity.
This developmental trend is often interpreted as a progressive refinement of the mental …

Visual position discrimination improves with practice; however, the mechanism (s)
underlying this improvement are not yet known. We used positional noise to explore the …

The right decision today may be the wrong decision tomorrow. We live in a world in which
expectations, contingencies, and goals continually evolve and change. Thus, decisions do …

During the past two decades growing evidence indicates that brain oscillations in the alpha
band (~ 10 Hz) not only reflect an “idle” state of cortical activity, but also take a more active …

Blindness is a common sequela after stroke affecting the primary visual cortex, presenting as
a contralesional, homonymous, visual field cut. This can occur unilaterally or, less …

Cortical blindness is a chronic loss of vision following damage to the primary visual cortex
(V1) or its postchiasmal afferents. Such damage is followed by a brief period of spontaneous …

We investigated the psychophysical and neurophysiological differences between fast-action
video game players (specifically first person shooter players, FPS) and non-action players …

Can we create engaging training programs that improve working memory (WM) skills? While
there are numerous procedures that attempt to do so, there is a great deal of controversy …

Performance in perceptual tasks often improves with practice. This effect is known as
'perceptual learning,'and it has been the source of a great deal of interest and debate over …

For more than a century, the process of stabilization has been a central issue in the research
of learning and memory. Namely, after a skill or memory is acquired, it must be consolidated …