Perceptual learning in adult humans and animals refers to improvements in sensory abilities
after training. These improvements had been thought to occur only when attention is focused …

Perceptual learning improves performance on many tasks, from orientation discrimination to
the identification of faces. Although conventional wisdom considered sensory cortices as …

Previous research indicates that long-term meditation practice is associated with altered
resting electroencephalogram patterns, suggestive of long lasting changes in brain activity …

Listening is an active process in which attentive focus on salient acoustic features in auditory
tasks can influence receptive field properties of cortical neurons. Recent studies showing …

We hypothesized that learning-induced representational expansion in the primary auditory
cortex (AI) directly encodes the degree of behavioral importance of a sound. Rats trained on …

Evolution of the mammalian neocortex is difficult to examine directly. For this reason,
comparative studies and developmental studies are the best way of gaining insight into the …

The mechanisms by which hearing selectivity is elaborated and refined in early
development are very incompletely determined. In this study, we documented contributions …

Cross-modal plasticity in deaf subjects is still discussed controversial. We tried to figure out
whether the plasticity is dependent on the extent of hearing loss. Three groups of volunteers …

For more than a century, the process of stabilization has been a central issue in the research
of learning and memory. Namely, after a skill or memory is acquired, it must be consolidated …

Perceptual learning is an improvement in one's sensory abilities after training and is thought
to help us to better adapt to the sensory environment. Here, we show that perceptual …