Amblyopia is a neuro-developmental disorder of the visual cortex that arises from abnormal
visual experience early in life. Amblyopia is clinically important because it is a major cause …

Perceptual learning can be defined as practice-induced improvement in the ability to
perform specific perceptual tasks. We previously proposed the Reverse Hierarchy Theory as …

Psychedelic drugs have reemerged as tools to treat several brain disorders. Cultural
attitudes toward them are changing, and scientists are once again investigating the neural …

Reports published in Vision Research during the late years of the 20th century described
surprising effects of long-term sensitivity improvement with some basic visual tasks as a …

Recent work has transformed our ideas about the neural mechanisms, behavioral
consequences and effective therapies for amblyopia. Since the 1700′ s, the clinical …

Abnormal visual experience during a sensitive period of development disrupts neuronal
circuitry in the visual cortex and results in abnormal spatial vision or amblyopia. Here we …

Environmental enrichment (EE) is known to profoundly affect the central nervous system
(CNS) at the functional, anatomical and molecular level, both during the critical period and …

Practicing certain visual tasks leads, as a result of a process termed “perceptual learning,” to
a significant improvement in performance. Learning is specific for basic stimulus features …

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 …

Our ability to coordinate the use of our left and right eyes and to make use of subtle
differences between the images received by each eye allows us to perceive stereoscopic …