Overlearning refers to the continued training of a skill after performance improvement has
plateaued. Whether overlearning is beneficial is a question in our daily lives that has never …

Practising simple visual tasks leads to a dramatic improvement in performing them. This
learning is specific to the stimuli used for training. We show here that the degree of …

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 …

Here, we review the role of top-down attention in both the acquisition and the expression of
perceptual learning, as well as the role of learning in more efficiently guiding attentional …

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 …

In this review, we summarize recent evidence that perceptual learning can occur not only
under training conditions but also in situations of unattended and passive sensory …

Translating noisy sensory signals to perceptual decisions is critical for successful
interactions in complex environments. Learning is known to improve perceptual judgments …

Experience and training have been shown to facilitate our ability to extract and discriminate
meaningful patterns from cluttered environments. Yet, the human brain mechanisms that …

Prediction errors are critical for associative learning [1, 2]. Transient changes in dopamine
neuron activity correlate with positive and negative reward prediction errors and can mimic …

Historically, the body's sensory systems have been presumed to provide the brain with raw
information about the external environment, which the brain must interpret to select a …