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

Improvement in perception takes place within the training session and from one session to
the next. The present study aims at determining the time course of perceptual learning as …

Performance of a wide range of simple visual tasks improves with practice. Here we ask
whether such learning occurs for the fundamental visual task of luminance contrast …

Motor learning must involve changes in the organisation of the brain, and it seems axiomatic
that afferent signals generated during repeated motor practice contribute to this. In this study …

The neural mechanisms underlying the perception of pitch, a sensory attribute of paramount
importance in hearing, have been a matter of debate for over a century. A question currently …

Learning transfer effects of a modified spatial frequency discrimination task with simple
sinusoidal gratings on various untrained test tasks, testing performance in relative position …

Discusses the perception of orientations in the visual system. It is documented that
orientation processing is anisotropic, the vertical and horizontal orientations being perceived …

Heritable features evolving during evolutionary time spans are of ultimate advantage for
survival and are, without exception, structurally fixed. To cope successfully with the ongoing …

This chapter summarizes recent findings about plastic changes in adult early sensory and
motor cortices. We discuss mechanisms leading to enduring changes of synaptic efficacy …

The brain may operate in an arbitrarily complex way, while its self-organizational, or
learning, processes, to the extent that they can be distinguished from normal operation, may …