Background: The vestibular system detects head accelerations within 6 degrees of freedom.
How well this is accomplished is described by vestibular perceptual thresholds. They are a …

Common factors are ubiquitous. For example, there is a common factor, g, for intelligence. In
vision, there is much weaker evidence for such common factors. For example, visual illusion …

It has been claimed that video gamers possess increased perceptual and cognitive skills
compared to non-video gamers. Here, we examined to which extent gaming performance in …

Saccadic eye movements successively project the saccade target on two retinal locations: a
peripheral one before the saccade, and the fovea after the saccade. Typically, performance …

Visual perceptual learning is traditionally thought to arise in visual cortex. However, typical
perceptual learning tasks also involve systematic mapping of visual information onto motor …

Perceptual learning is usually feature-specific. Recently, we showed that perceptual
learning is even specific for the motor response type. In a three-line bisection task …

Computational models that explain lightness/brightness illusions have been proposed.
These models have been assessed using a simplistic criterion: the number of illusions each …

Perceptual learning, a form of adult brain plasticity that produces improved discrimination,
has been studied in various tasks and senses. However, it is unknown whether and how this …

We examined whether the effects of practice on visual detection are stimulus specific and
whether practice alters response bias. Eighty-four subjects performed yes-no detection of …

Visual perceptual learning (VPL) is an improvement in visual function following training.
Although the practical utility of VPL was once thought to be limited by its specificity to the …