Highlights•Perceptual Learning research has identified numerous processes that change
with learning.•Identified mechanisms of Perceptual Learning are not mutually …

Learning to read is extremely difficult for about 10% of children across cultures because they
are affected by developmental dyslexia (DD). According to the dominant view, DD is …

Amblyopia is a neuro-developmental disorder characterised by several functional
impairments in spatial vision even with the best optical correction. There is evidence that …

Visual crowding, the difficulty of recognizing elements when surrounded by similar items, is
a widely studied perceptual phenomenon and a trademark characteristic of peripheral …

Amblyopia therapy options have traditionally been limited to penalisation of the non-
amblyopic eye with either patching or pharmaceutical penalisation. Solid evidence, mostly …

In peripheral vision, objects in clutter are difficult to identify. The exact cause of this
“crowding” effect is unclear. To perceive coherent shapes in clutter, the visual system must …

It has recently been demonstrated how perceptual learning, that is an improvement in a
sensory/perceptual task upon practice, can be boosted by concurrent high-frequency …

Background: Macular Degeneration (MD), a visual disease that produces central vision loss,
is one of the main causes of visual disability in western countries. Patients with MD are …

Background: Amblyopic observers present abnormal spatial interactions between a low-
contrast sinusoidal target and high-contrast collinear flankers. It has been demonstrated that …

Masking and crowding are major phenomena associated with contextual modulations, but
the relationship between them remains unclear. We have recently shown that crowding is …