ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2018
Towards a whole brain model of Perceptual Learning.
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- Brief memory reactivations enable generalization of offline visual perceptual learning mechanisms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Task-Irrelevant Phase but not Contrast Variability Unlocks Generalization in Visual Perceptual Learning.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2025Article
- PLFest: A New Platform for Accessible, Reproducible, and Open Perceptual Learning Research.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2024Article
- Visual Perceptual Learning of Form-Motion Integration: Exploring the Involved Mechanisms with Transfer Effects and the Equivalent Noise Approach.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Single neuron responses to perceptual difficulty in the mouse auditory cortex.Science advances · 2024Article
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- Feature variability determines specificity and transfer in multiorientation feature detection learning.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Profiles of visual perceptual learning in feature space.iScience · 2024Article
- Fast perceptual learning induces location-specific facilitation and suppression at early stages of visual cortical processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Empirical validation of QUEST+ in PSE and JND estimations in visual discrimination tasks.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
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Abstract
A hallmark of modern Perceptual Learning (PL) is the extent to which learning is specific to the trained stimuli. Such specificity to orientation, spatial location and even eye of training has been used as psychophysical evidence of the neural basis of learning. This argument that specificity of PL implies regionalization of brain plasticity implicitly assumes that examination of a singular locus of PL is an appropriate approach to understand learning. However, recent research shows that learning effects once thought to be specific depend on subtleties of the training paradigm and that within even a simple training procedure there are multiple aspects of the task and stimuli that are learned simultaneously. Here, we suggest that learning on any task involves a broad network of brain regions undergoing changes in representations, read-out weights, decision rules, attention and feedback processes as well as oculomotor changes. However, importantly, the distribution of learning across the neural system depends upon the details of the training procedure and the characterstics of the individual being trained. We propose that to advance our understanding of PL, the field must move towards understanding how distributed brain processes jointly contribute to behavioral learning effects.
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