Perceptual learning: is V1 up to the task?
Our ability to make fine visual discriminations improves with practice, and so at some level so must our visual system. A new paper reports that the receptive field structure of a neuron can be fine-tuned for different visual tasks. These findings raise important questions about the circuitry and mechanisms that underly perceptual learning.
Thiele
Alexander
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Henry Wellcome Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle NE2 4HH, UK. alex.thiele@ncl.ac.uk
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*