The visual system of the adult with amblyopia may still retain some plasticity, and perceptual learning may be a valuable clinical tool for treating pediatric and adult amblyopia, a recent study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Eye movement behavior and certain spatial properties that have adapted to vision loss may be evidence of the ...

Stress is part of our everyday lives - while some thrive on it, it makes others sick. But what does stress do to our senses? When we train them, we can sharpen our senses thereby improve our ...

Practice results in better learning. Consider learning a musical instrument, for example: the more one practices, the better one will be able to learn to play. The same holds true for cognition and ...

Training can improve performance of perceptual tasks. This phenomenon, known as perceptual learning, is strongest for the trained task and stimulus, leading to a widely accepted assumption that the ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 25 (Jun. 21, 2005), pp. 9080-9085 (6 pages) Perceptual learning is an improvement in one's sensory ...

Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Scientists show that perceptual learning -- learning by repeated exposure to a stimulus -- can occur by mental imagery as much as by the real thing. The ...

Rewards act as external factors that influence and reinforce learning processes. Researchers have now been able to show that the brain can produce its own learning signals in cases where no such ...

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