Sleep is universal, tightly regulated, and its loss impairs cognition. But why does the brain
need to disconnect from the environment for hours every day? The synaptic homeostasis …

While humans have an incredible capacity to acquire new skills and alter their behavior as a
result of experience, enhancements in performance are typically narrowly restricted to the …

We summarize the various strands of research on peripheral vision and relate them to
theories of form perception. After a historical overview, we describe quantifications of the …

Jean-Marie Schaeffer, L’Expérience esthétique Page 1 Marges Revue d’art contemporain
22 | 2016 L’Artiste-théoricien Jean-Marie Schaeffer, L’Expérience esthétique Paris …

Current concepts of sensory processing in the cerebral cortex emphasize serial extraction
and recombination of features in hierarchically structured feed-forward networks in order to …

As video-game playing has become a ubiquitous activity in today's society, it is worth
considering its potential consequences on perceptual and motor skills. It is well known that …

Video game enthusiasts spend many hours at play, and this intense activity has the potential
to alter both brain and behavior. We review studies that investigate the ability of video …

Behavioral and neurophysiological studies suggest that skill learning can be mediated by
discrete, experience-driven changes within specific neural representations subserving the …

Improvement in motor skill performance is known to continue for at least 24 hr following
training, yet the relative contributions of time spent awake and asleep are unknown. Here we …

We examined a visual search task, in which observers responded to the high-acuity aspect
of a popout target (shape of an odd-colored diamond or vernier offset of an odd spatial …