One of the most exciting recent findings in neuroscience has been the capacity for neural
plasticity in adult humans and animals. Studies of perceptual learning have provided key …

Training or exposure to a visual feature leads to a long‐term improvement in performance
on visual tasks that employ this feature. Such performance improvements and the processes …

Perceptual learning substantially improves visual discrimination and detection ability, which
has been associated with visual cortical plasticity. However, little is known about the …

Playing video games is a common recreational activity of adolescents. Recent research
associated frequent video game playing with improvements in cognitive functions …

Neural information processing systems must overcome a series of bottlenecks that interrupt
the sequence of events between sensory input and motor output. First, the sensory neurons …

Perceptual learning, a process in which training improves visual discrimination, is often
specific to the trained retinal location, and this location specificity is frequently regarded as …

Although much recent work in perceptual learning (PL) has focused on basic sensory
discriminations, recent analyses suggest that PL in a variety of tasks depends on processes …

We present a review of recent studies of perceptual learning conducted with nonhuman
animals. The focus of this research has been to elucidate the mechanisms by which mere …

Within a few sentences, listeners learn to understand severely degraded speech such as
noise-vocoded speech. However, individuals vary in the amount of such perceptual learning …

Perceptual learning has traditionally been portrayed as a bottom-up phenomenon that
improves encoding or decoding of the trained stimulus. Cognitive skills such as attention …