We summarize the various strands of research on peripheral vision and relate them to
theories of form perception. After a historical overview, we describe quantifications of the …

Although the study of visual perception has made more progress in the past 40 years than
any other area of cognitive science, there remain major disagreements as to how closely …

Learning to Think Spatially examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into
existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. Spatial thinking must be …

▪ Abstract Perceptual learning involves relatively long-lasting changes to an organism's
perceptual system that improve its ability to respond to its environment. Four mechanisms of …

Visual perceptual learning (VPL) is long-term performance increase resulting from visual
perceptual experience. Task-relevant VPL of a feature results from training of a task on the …

Human beings have an amazing capacity to learn new skills and adapt to new
environments. However, several obstacles remain to be overcome in designing paradigms …

Reports published in Vision Research during the late years of the 20th century described
surprising effects of long-term sensitivity improvement with some basic visual tasks as a …

The learning of perceptual skills has been shown in some cases to depend on the plasticity
of the visual cortex and to require post-training nocturnal sleep. We now report that sleep …

The N-methyl-d-aspartate subtype of glutamate receptor (NMDAR) serves critical functions
in physiological and pathological processes in the central nervous system, including …

The performance of adult humans in simple visual tasks improves dramatically with practice.
This improvement is highly specific to basic attributes of the trained stimulus, suggesting that …