The brain is continuously modified by perceptual experience throughout life. Perceptual
learning, which refers to the long-term performance improvement resulting from practice, has …

Background Perceptual learning has been documented in adult humans over a wide range
of tasks. Although the often-observed specificity of learning is generally interpreted as …

When dissimilar images are presented to the two eyes, they compete for perceptual
dominance so that only one image is visible at a time while the other one is suppressed …

Experience-dependent plasticity in the visual system is traditionally thought to be exclusively
cortical whereas the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) is classically considered to …

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

Perceptual learning is the improved performance that follows practice in a perceptual task. In
this issue of Neuron, Yotsumoto et al. use fMRI to show that stimuli presented at the location …

The responses of neurons in lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) exhibit powerful suppressive
phenomena such as contrast saturation, size tuning, and masking. These phenomena …

Repeated experience with a visual stimulus can result in improved perception of the
stimulus, ie, perceptual learning. To understand the underlying neural mechanisms of this …

Gain-control mechanisms adjust neuronal responses to accommodate the wide range of
stimulus conditions in the natural environment. Contrast gain control and extraclassical …

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 …