The possibility of leveraging video games for enhancing behavior and brain function has led
to an emerging new field situated at the crossroads of cognitive neuroscience, health …

While humans have an incredible capacity to acquire new skills and alter their behavior as a
result of experience, enhancements in performance are typically narrowly restricted to the …

Amblyopia is a neuro-developmental disorder of the visual cortex that arises from abnormal
visual experience early in life. Amblyopia is clinically important because it is a major cause …

Adult brain plasticity, although possible, remains more restricted in scope than during
development. Here, we address conditions under which circuit rewiring may be facilitated in …

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 …

Visual perceptual learning through practice or training can significantly improve
performance on visual tasks. Originally seen as a manifestation of plasticity in the primary …

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 shift in ocular dominance (OD) of binocular neurons induced by monocular deprivation
is the canonical model of synaptic plasticity confined to a postnatal critical period …

Recent work has transformed our ideas about the neural mechanisms, behavioral
consequences and effective therapies for amblyopia. Since the 1700′ s, the clinical …

The visual expertise of adult humans is jointly determined by evolution, visual development
and visual perceptual learning. Perceptual learning refers to performance improvements in …