The acquisition of skilled motor performance: fast and slow experience-driven changes in primary motor cortex

A Karni, G Meyer, C Rey-Hipolito… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Behavioral and neurophysiological studies suggest that skill learning can be mediated by
discrete, experience-driven changes within specific neural representations subserving the …

Adult cortical dynamics

CD Gilbert - Physiological reviews, 1998 - journals.physiology.org
Gilbert, Charles D. Adult Cortical Dynamics. Physiol. Rev. 78: 467–485, 1998.—There are
many influences on our perception of local features. What we see is not strictly a reflection of …

Perceptual learning reflects external noise filtering and internal noise reduction through channel reweighting

BA Dosher, ZL Lu - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
To investigate the nature of plasticity in the adult visual system, perceptual learning was
measured in a peripheral orientation discrimination task with systematically varying amounts …

Mechanisms of generalization in perceptual learning

Z Liu, D Weinshall - Advances in neural information …, 1998 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The learning of many visual perceptual tasks has been shown to be specific to practiced
stimuli, while new stimuli require re-Iearning from scratch. Here we demonstrate …

Attention and perceptual learning modulate contextual influences on visual perception

M Ito, G Westheimer, CD Gilbert - Neuron, 1998 - cell.com
Brightness discrimination thresholds and facilitation by lateral interaction were measured in
five human observers and two monkeys. The subjects judged the brightness of one of four …

[HTML][HTML] Learning pop-out detection: building representations for conflicting target-distractor relationships

M Ahissar, R Laiwand, G Kozminsky, S Hochstein - Vision Research, 1998 - Elsevier
Studies of perceptual learning consistently found that improvement is stimulus specific.
These findings were interpreted as indicating an early cortical learning site. In line with this …

Perceptual learning

K Sathian - Current Science, 1998 - JSTOR
Perceptual learning, which is the improvement in perceptual performance due to practice,
has been studied by psychologists for over a hundred years. Studies over the last two …