[HTML][HTML] Perceptual learning as a potential treatment for amblyopia: a mini-review

DM Levi, RW Li - Vision research, 2009 - Elsevier
Amblyopia is a developmental abnormality that results from physiological alterations in the
visual cortex and impairs form vision. It is a consequence of abnormal binocular visual …

Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning

M Ahissar, M Nahum, I Nelken… - … Transactions of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Revealing the relationships between perceptual representations in the brain and
mechanisms of adult perceptual learning is of great importance, potentially leading to …

Reinforcement learning can account for associative and perceptual learning on a visual-decision task

CT Law, JI Gold - Nature neuroscience, 2009 - nature.com
We recently showed that improved perceptual performance on a visual motion direction–
discrimination task corresponds to changes in how an unmodified sensory representation in …

[HTML][HTML] Task precision at transfer determines specificity of perceptual learning

PE Jeter, BA Dosher, A Petrov, ZL Lu - Journal of vision, 2009 - jov.arvojournals.org
Perceptual learning, the improvement in performance with practice, reflects plasticity in the
adult visual system. We challenge a standard claim that specificity of perceptual learning …

Improving the performance of the amblyopic visual system

DM Levi, RW Li - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Experience-dependent plasticity is closely linked with the development of sensory function;
however, there is also growing evidence for plasticity in the adult visual system. This review …

[HTML][HTML] Learning to attend: Effects of practice on information selection

TA Kelley, S Yantis - Journal of Vision, 2009 - jov.arvojournals.org
Though practice can lead to improved performance in many domains, it is currently unknown
how practice affects the deployment of selective attention to filter distracting information. We …

Hebbian reweighting on stable representations in perceptual learning

BA Dosher, ZL Lu - Learning & Perception, 2009 - akjournals.com
Perceptual learning is the improvement in perceptual task performance with practice or
training. The observation of specificity in perceptual learning has been widely associated …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms underlying perceptual learning of contrast detection in adults with anisometropic amblyopia

CB Huang, ZL Lu, Y Zhou - Journal of Vision, 2009 - iovs.arvojournals.org
What underlies contrast sensitivity improvements in adults with anisometropic amblyopia
following perceptual learning in grating contrast detection? In this paper, we adopted the …

Roles of attention in perceptual learning from perspectives of psychophysics and animal learning

Y Tsushima, T Watanabe - Learning & behavior, 2009 - Springer
The role of attention in perceptual learning has been a topic of controversy. Sensory
psychophysicists/physiologists and animal learning psychologists have conducted …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive precision pooling of model neuron activities predicts the efficiency of human visual learning

RA Jacobs - Journal of vision, 2009 - jov.arvojournals.org
When performing a perceptual task, precision pooling occurs when an organism's decisions
are based on the activities of a small set of highly informative neurons. The Adaptive …