Perceptual learning improves performance on many tasks, from orientation discrimination to
the identification of faces. Although conventional wisdom considered sensory cortices as …

In this review, we summarize recent evidence that perceptual learning can occur not only
under training conditions but also in situations of unattended and passive sensory …

From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing
power of" mindsight," the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain …

Categorization is a process by which the brain assigns meaning to sensory stimuli. Through
experience, we learn to group stimuli into categories, such as 'chair','table'and 'vehicle' …

We describe a form of experience-dependent response enhancement in the visual cortex of
awake mice. Repeated presentations of grating stimuli of a single orientation result in a …

Retinal image of surrounding objects varies tremendously due to the changes in position,
size, pose, illumination condition, background context, occlusion, noise, and non-rigid …

Despite a remarkably precise spatial representation of odorant stimuli in the early stages of
olfactory processing, the projections to the olfactory (piriform) cortex are more diffuse and …

Recent data on learning-related changes in animal and human auditory cortex indicate
functions beyond mere stimulus representation and simple recognition memory for stimuli …

Listening is an active process in which attentive focus on salient acoustic features in auditory
tasks can influence receptive field properties of cortical neurons. Recent studies showing …

Activity in the primary auditory cortex (A1) is essential for normal sound localization
behavior, but previous studies of the spatial sensitivity of neurons in A1 have found broad …