Benefits of multisensory learning

L Shams, AR Seitz - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008 - cell.com
Studies of learning, and in particular perceptual learning, have focused on learning of stimuli
consisting of a single sensory modality. However, our experience in the world involves …

[HTML][HTML] Complete transfer of perceptual learning across retinal locations enabled by double training

LQ Xiao, JY Zhang, R Wang, SA Klein, DM Levi, C Yu - Current biology, 2008 - cell.com
Practice improves discrimination of many basic visual features, such as contrast, orientation,
and positional offset [1–7]. Perceptual learning of many of these tasks is found to be retinal …

[HTML][HTML] Different dynamics of performance and brain activation in the time course of perceptual learning

Y Yotsumoto, T Watanabe, Y Sasaki - Neuron, 2008 - cell.com
Perceptual learning is regarded as a manifestation of experience-dependent plasticity in the
sensory systems, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. We measured the …

Synaptic plasticity from visual cortex to hippocampus: systems integration in spatial information processing

M Tsanov, D Manahan-Vaughan - The Neuroscientist, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The adult cerebral cortex possesses the remarkable ability to change its neuronal
connectivity through experience, a phenomenon termed “synaptic plasticity.” Synaptic …

Perceptual learning depends on perceptual constancy

P Garrigan, PJ Kellman - Proceedings of the National …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Perceptual learning refers to experience-induced improvements in the pick-up of
information. Perceptual constancy describes the fact that, despite variable sensory input …

[HTML][HTML] Robust perceptual learning of faces in the absence of sleep

Z Hussain, AB Sekuler, PJ Bennett - Vision Research, 2008 - Elsevier
This study examines the effects of sleep on learning in a face identification task. Five groups
of subjects performed a 1-of-10 face identification task in two sessions separated by 3, 12 …

Offline processing of memories induced by perceptual visual learning during subsequent wakefulness and sleep: A behavioral study

L Matarazzo, E Frankó, P Maquet, R Vogels - Journal of Vision, 2008 - jov.arvojournals.org
To further characterize perceptual memory consolidation during sleep, we used a coarse
orientation discrimination task in which participants had to discriminate the orientation of …

[PDF][PDF] 光栅朝向分辨学习中存在关于45 对角线对称的镜像迁移”

陈小丽, 曲折, 王优, 丁玉珑 - 心理学报, 2008 - journal.psych.ac.cn
摘要采用光栅朝向分辨任务来探讨视知觉学习中是否存在关于45 对角线对称的镜像迁移现象.
训练被试分辨15 或75 朝向3 或5d, 每天约1h, 训练前后测量15, 75, 45 朝向的分辨闵值 …

On the temporal dynamics of covert attention

AM Giordano - 2008 - search.proquest.com
Attention is a mechanism, which allows us to prioritize our visual processing. Although there
is a great amount research examining the nature of attention, much is unknown about its …

[PDF][PDF] Offline processing of memories induced by perceptual

L Matarazzo, E Frankó, P Maquet, R Vogels - 2008 - academia.edu
To further characterize perceptual memory consolidation during sleep, we used a coarse
orientation discrimination task in which participants had to discriminate the orientation of …