The last ten years of attention research have witnessed a revolution, replacing a theoretical
dichotomy (top-down vs. bottom-up control) with a trichotomy (biased by current goals …

Humans and many other animals have an enormous capacity to learn about sensory stimuli
and to master new skills. However, many of the mechanisms that enable us to learn remain …

Understanding the brain requires us to answer both what the brain does, and how it does it.
Using a series of examples, I make the case that behavior is often more useful than …

Adaptive Resonance Theory, or ART, is a cognitive and neural theory of how the brain
autonomously learns to categorize, recognize, and predict objects and events in a changing …

Although the study of visual perception has made more progress in the past 40 years than
any other area of cognitive science, there remain major disagreements as to how closely …

We propose that explicit vision advances in reverse hierarchical direction, as shown for
perceptual learning. Processing along the feedforward hierarchy of areas, leading to …

Summary In Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1, the Scottish rebel, the Earl of Douglas, engages
in a visual search task. He is searching for King Henry in a field full of soldiers who are not …

This study demonstrates that listeners use lexical knowledge in perceptual learning of
speech sounds. Dutch listeners first made lexical decisions on Dutch words and nonwords …

Visual perceptual learning through practice or training can significantly improve
performance on visual tasks. Originally seen as a manifestation of plasticity in the primary …

Visual perceptual learning (VPL) is long-term performance increase resulting from visual
perceptual experience. Task-relevant VPL of a feature results from training of a task on the …