Performance in visual discrimination tasks improves with practice. Although the
psychophysical parameters of these improvements have suggested the involvement of early …

Previous studies have shown that perceptual learning can substantially alter the response
properties of neurons in the primary somatosensory and auditory cortices. Although …

Perceptual learning is an instance of adult plasticity whereby training in a sensory (eg, a
visual task) results in neuronal changes leading to an improved ability to perform the task …

The responsiveness of neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) is substantially reduced
after a few seconds of visual stimulation with an effective pattern. This phenomenon, called …

The response properties of neurons in primary sensory cortices remain malleable
throughout life. The existence of such plasticity, and the characteristics of a form of implicit …

The performance of adult humans in simple visual tasks improves dramatically with practice.
This improvement is highly specific to basic attributes of the trained stimulus, suggesting that …

Background: Recent experiments have demonstrated a remarkable amount of specificity in
the learning of simple visual tasks in humans, as well as considerable plasticity of receptive …

1. The tail of the caudate nucleus and adjacent ventral putamen (ventrocaudal neostriatum)
are major projection sites of the extrastriate visual cortex. Visual information is then relayed …

The improvement of perceptual capabilities with training can offer important insight into the
physiological basis of learning in the cerebral cortex. The rapid time course and ease with …

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