Behavioral and neurophysiological studies suggest that skill learning can be mediated by
discrete, experience-driven changes within specific neural representations subserving the …

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 …

The primary sense modalities (vision, touch and so on) are generally thought of as distinct.
However, visual imagery is implicated in the normal tactile perception of some object …

Objective: To determine if blind people have heightened tactile spatial acuity. Background:
Recently, studies using magnetic source imaging and somatosensory evoked potentials …

Improvement in perception takes place within the training session and from one session to
the next. The present study aims at determining the time course of perceptual learning as …

Tactile spatial acuity is enhanced in blindness, according to several studies, but the cause of
this enhancement has been controversial. Two competing hypotheses are the tactile …

Recent studies of the improvement of perceptual performance as a function of training—
perceptual learning—have provided new insights into the neuronal substrates of this type of …

It is not clear whether the blind are generally superior to the sighted on measures of tactile
sensitivity or whether they excel only on certain tests owing to the specifics of their tactile …

This paper concerns the characterization of performance and perceptual learning of
somatosensory interval discrimination. The purposes of this study were to define (1) the …

Optimal perception of surface roughness requires lateral movement between skin and
surface, suggesting the importance of temporal cues. The roughness of periodic gratings is …