Observational studyCurrent biology : CB2020
Recurrent Processing Drives Perceptual Plasticity.
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- Visual Perceptual Learning Enhances Functional Connectivity in Retinotopic Space.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Voluntary Attention Selectively Modulates Omission Responses.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
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- Occipital and parietal non-invasive brain stimulation enhances perceptual learning and transfer: evidence from high-frequency tRNS.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Stroboscopic visual training and the brain: a narrative review of neural mechanisms underlying perceptual-cognitive adaptation in interceptive sports.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Editorial: Advances in perceptual learning: new directions, techniques, and applications.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
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- A neural geometry approach comprehensively explains apparently conflicting models of visual perceptual learning.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Perceptual learning improves discrimination but does not reduce distortions in appearance.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
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- A computational deep learning investigation of animacy perception in the human brain.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Recurrent inhibition refines mental templates to optimize perceptual decisions.Science advances · 2024Article
- A new predictive coding model for a more comprehensive account of delusions.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2024Review
- Fast perceptual learning induces location-specific facilitation and suppression at early stages of visual cortical processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Expectation Cues and False Percepts Generate Stimulus-Specific Activity in Distinct Layers of the Early Visual Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Acquisition and processing methods of whole-brain layer-fMRI VASO and BOLD: The Kenshu dataset.Aperture neuro · 2023Article
- Reactivation-induced memory integration prevents proactive interference in perceptual learning.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- What multiplexing means for the interpretation of functional MRI data.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Priority coding in the visual system.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022Review
- Neurochemical and functional interactions for improved perceptual decisions through training.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Learning and experience are critical for translating ambiguous sensory information from our environments to perceptual decisions. Yet evidence on how training molds the adult human brain remains controversial, as fMRI at standard resolution does not allow us to discern the finer scale mechanisms that underlie sensory plasticity. Here, we combine ultra-high-field (7T) functional imaging at sub-millimeter resolution with orientation discrimination training to interrogate experience-dependent plasticity across cortical depths that are known to support dissociable brain computations. We demonstrate that learning alters orientation-specific representations in superficial rather than middle or deeper V1 layers, consistent with recurrent plasticity mechanisms via horizontal connections. Further, learning increases feedforward rather than feedback layer-to-layer connectivity in occipito-parietal regions, suggesting that sensory plasticity gates perceptual decisions. Our findings reveal finer scale plasticity mechanisms that re-weight sensory signals to inform improved decisions, bridging the gap between micro- and macro-circuits of experience-dependent plasticity.
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