Human functional neuroimaging of brain changes associated with practice

AMC Kelly, H Garavan - Cerebral cortex, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The discovery that experience-driven changes in the human brain can occur from a neural to
a cortical level throughout the lifespan has stimulated a proliferation of research into how …

Keeping time in the brain: Autism spectrum disorder and audiovisual temporal processing

RA Stevenson, M Segers, S Ferber… - Autism …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A growing area of interest and relevance in the study of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
focuses on the relationship between multisensory temporal function and the behavioral …

Random noise stimulation improves neuroplasticity in perceptual learning

A Fertonani, C Pirulli, C Miniussi - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Perceptual learning is considered a manifestation of neural plasticity in the human brain. We
investigated brain plasticity mechanisms in a learning task using noninvasive transcranial …

Neural correlates of perceptual learning: a functional MRI study of visual texture discrimination

S Schwartz, P Maquet, C Frith - Proceedings of the National …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
Visual texture discrimination has been shown to induce long-lasting behavioral
improvement restricted to the trained eye and trained location in visual field [Karni, A. & Sagi …

Adult visual cortical plasticity

CD Gilbert, W Li - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
The visual cortex has the capacity for experience-dependent change, or cortical plasticity,
that is retained throughout life. Plasticity is invoked for encoding information during …

[HTML][HTML] Different dynamics of performance and brain activation in the time course of perceptual learning

Y Yotsumoto, T Watanabe, Y Sasaki - Neuron, 2008 - cell.com
Perceptual learning is regarded as a manifestation of experience-dependent plasticity in the
sensory systems, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. We measured the …

Signal but not noise changes with perceptual learning

J Gold, PJ Bennett, AB Sekuler - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Perceptual discrimination improves with practice. This 'perceptual learning'is often specific to
the stimuli presented during training,,,,, indicating that practice may alter the response …

The dynamics of perceptual learning: an incremental reweighting model.

AA Petrov, BA Dosher, ZL Lu - Psychological review, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
The mechanisms of perceptual learning are analyzed theoretically, probed in an orientation-
discrimination experiment involving a novel nonstationary context manipulation, and …

Physiological correlates of perceptual learning in monkey V1 and V2

GM Ghose, T Yang… - Journal of …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
Performance in visual discrimination tasks improves with practice. Although the
psychophysical parameters of these improvements have suggested the involvement of early …

Learning strengthens the response of primary visual cortex to simple patterns

CS Furmanski, D Schluppeck, SA Engel - Current Biology, 2004 - cell.com
Training can significantly improve performance on even the most basic visual tasks, such as
detecting a faint patch of light or determining the orientation of a bar (for reviews, see [1, 2]) …