ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2014
Two-stage model in perceptual learning: toward a unified theory.
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- Distinct Neural Plasticity Enhancing Visual Perception.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Modulating temporal dynamics of performance across retinotopic locations enhances the generalization of perceptual learning.iScience · 2023Article
- The phase of plasticity-induced neurochemical changes of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation are different from visual perceptual learning.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Tactile angle discriminability improvement: contributions of working memory training and continuous attended sensory input.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
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- Assessing the functions underlying learning using by-trial and by-participant models: Evidence from two visual perceptual learning paradigms.Journal of vision · 2021Article
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- Early Visual Cortex Stimulation Modifies Well-Consolidated Perceptual Gains.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- Speech in noise perception improved by training fine auditory discrimination: far and applicable transfer of perceptual learning.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Training or exposure to a visual feature leads to a long-term improvement in performance on visual tasks that employ this feature. Such performance improvements and the processes that govern them are called visual perceptual learning (VPL). As an ever greater volume of research accumulates in the field, we have reached a point where a unifying model of VPL should be sought. A new wave of research findings has exposed diverging results along three major directions in VPL: specificity versus generalization of VPL, lower versus higher brain locus of VPL, and task-relevant versus task-irrelevant VPL. In this review, we propose a new theoretical model that suggests the involvement of two different stages in VPL: a low-level, stimulus-driven stage, and a higher-level stage dominated by task demands. If experimentally verified, this model would not only constructively unify the current divergent results in the VPL field, but would also lead to a significantly better understanding of visual plasticity, which may, in turn, lead to interventions to ameliorate diseases affecting vision and other pathological or age-related visual and nonvisual declines.
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