Perceptual learning is a lifelong process. We begin by encoding information about the basic
structure of the natural world and continue to assimilate information about specific patterns …

The adult brain shows remarkable plasticity, as demonstrated by the improvement in fine
sensorial discriminations after intensive practice. The behavioural aspects of such …

The checkpoint kinase proteins Mec1 and Rad53 are required in the budding yeast,
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to maintain cell viability in the presence of drugs causing …

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 …

We report experiments combining assessment of spatial tactile discrimination behavior and
measurements of somatosensory-evoked potentials in human subjects before and after …

Two of the primary cues used to localize the sources of sounds are interaural level
differences (ILDs) and interaural time differences (ITDs). We conducted two experiments to …

During the past 20 years it became increasingly clear that sensory areas in the brain of adult
primates, including humans, retain a large degree of plasticity (reviewed in ref. 1) …

While it is generally accepted that foveal visual acuity in the adult has reached an optimal
value, claims for improvement of peripheral acuity with training in the adult persist in the …

In the classic oblique effect contrast detection thresholds, orientation discrimination
thresholds, and other psychophysical measures are found to be smallest for vertical or …

Using 15O-water 3D positron emission tomography we investigated the effect of training in
orientation discrimination upon cerebral activity in healthy human adults. When subjects are …