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

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 …

Action video game play benefits performance in an array of sensory, perceptual, and
attentional tasks that go well beyond the specifics of game play [1–9]. That a training …

The field of perceptual learning has identified changes in perceptual templates as a
powerful mechanism mediating the learning of statistical regularities in our environment. By …

Previous work has demonstrated that action video game training produces enhancements in
a wide range of cognitive abilities. Here we evaluate a possible mechanism by which such …

The visual expertise of adult humans is jointly determined by evolution, visual development
and visual perceptual learning. Perceptual learning refers to performance improvements in …

How does the brain learn those visual features that are relevant for behavior? In this article,
we focus on two factors that guide plasticity of visual representations. First, reinforcers cause …

The past two decades have seen a tremendous surge in scientific interest in the extent to
which certain types of training—be it aerobic, athletic, musical, video game, or brain trainer …

Action video games have been shown to enhance behavioral performance on a wide variety
of perceptual tasks, from those that require effective allocation of attentional resources …

Visual perceptual learning models, as constrained by orientation and location specificities,
propose that learning either reflects changes in V1 neuronal tuning or reweighting specific …