Recent studies have demonstrated that training adult amblyopes in simple visual tasks leads
to significant improvements of their spatial vision. One critical question is: How much can …

Learning in educational settings most often emphasizes declarative and procedural
knowledge. Studies of expertise, however, point to other, equally important components of …

There is growing evidence that working memory, episodic/semantic memory, and procedural
memory all play important roles in at least some types of category learning. Little is known …

Perceptual learning refers to experience-induced improvements in the pick-up of
information. Perceptual constancy describes the fact that, despite variable sensory input …

We sought to understand the basis of performance variability and perceptual learning in
saccadic visual search. Four subjects searched for a target based on its shape in a linear …

The late cognitive psychologist and memory theorist, Robert G. Crowder (MJT's colleague
for 6 years), was fond of saying “memory is perception.” What he meant was that memory is …

Learning new information requires practice. The degree of learning can be influenced by the
amount of practice and whether subjects sleep between sessions. Over-practice, however …

Work on visual perceptual learning for contrast detection has shown that reliable decreases
in detection thresholds are accompanied by reliable increases in false alarm rates (Wenger …

A number of studies have demonstrated that people often integrate information from multiple
perceptual cues in a statistically optimal manner when judging properties of surfaces in a …

弱视是一种由视觉系统发育障碍所引起且不能通过光学途径加以矫正的视力缺陷.
尽管通常认为弱视反映了发育过程中异常视觉经验引起的视觉皮层功能异常 …