Cognitive training for impaired neural systems in neuropsychiatric illness

S Vinogradov, M Fisher… - …, 2012 - nature.com
Neuropsychiatric illnesses are associated with dysfunction in distributed prefrontal neural
systems that underlie perception, cognition, social interactions, emotion regulation, and …

Developmental dyslexia: The difficulties of interpreting poor performance, and the importance of normal performance

F Ramus, M Ahissar - Cognitive neuropsychology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This paper provides a selective review of data on phonology, audition, vision, and learning
abilities in developmental dyslexia, with a specific focus on patterns of normal alongside …

Slow update of internal representations impedes synchronization in autism

G Vishne, N Jacoby, T Malinovitch, T Epstein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social skills, motor and
perceptual atypicalities. These difficulties were explained within the Bayesian framework as …

How recent history affects perception: the normative approach and its heuristic approximation

O Raviv, M Ahissar, Y Loewenstein - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
There is accumulating evidence that prior knowledge about expectations plays an important
role in perception. The Bayesian framework is the standard computational approach to …

Neurophysiological mechanisms of cortical plasticity impairments in schizophrenia and modulation by the NMDA receptor agonist D-serine

JT Kantrowitz, ML Epstein, O Beggel, S Rohrig… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia is associated with deficits in cortical plasticity that affect sensory brain regions
and lead to impaired cognitive performance. Here we examined underlying neural …

Trial-by-trial updating of an internal reference in discrimination tasks: Evidence from effects of stimulus order and trial sequence

O Dyjas, KM Bausenhart, R Ulrich - Attention, Perception, & …, 2012 - Springer
In psychophysics, participants are often asked to discriminate between a constant standard
and a variable comparison. Previous studies have shown that discrimination performance is …

Effects of literacy in early visual and occipitotemporal areas of Chinese and French readers

M Szwed, E Qiao, A Jobert, S Dehaene… - Journal of cognitive …, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
How does reading expertise change the visual system? Here, we explored whether the
visual system could develop dedicated perceptual mechanisms in early and intermediate …

Tactile perception and working memory in rats and humans

A Fassihi, A Akrami, V Esmaeili… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Primates can store sensory stimulus parameters in working memory for subsequent
manipulation, but until now, there has been no demonstration of this capacity in rodents …

Violation of the scalar property for time perception between 1 and 2 seconds: evidence from interval discrimination, reproduction, and categorization.

S Grondin - … of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
According to the hypothesis of a scalar property for time, the variability to time ratio should
be constant. Three experiments tested the validity of this hypothesis in a restricted range of …

Reduced learning of sound categories in dyslexia is associated with reduced regularity-induced auditory cortex adaptation

A Gertsovski, M Ahissar - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
A main characteristic of dyslexia is poor use of sound categories. We now studied within-
session learning of new sound categories in dyslexia, behaviorally and neurally, using fMRI …