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Where practice makes perfect in texture discrimination: evidence for primary visual cortex plasticity. (KarniSagi91)
Karni, A. and D. Sagi (1991). "Where practice makes perfect in texture discrimination: evidence for primary visual cortex plasticity." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 88(11): 4966-70.
Abstract
In terms of functional anatomy, where does learning occur when, for a basic visual discrimination task, performance improves with practice (perceptual learning)? We report remarkable long-term learning in a simple texture discrimination task where learning is specific for retinal input. This learning is (i) local (in a retinotopic sense), (ii) orientation specific but asymmetric (it is specific for background but not for target-element orientation), and (iii) strongly monocular (there is little interocular transfer of learning). Our results suggest that learning involves experience-dependent changes at a level of the visual system where monocularity and the retinotopic organization of the visual input are still retained and where different orientations are processed separately. These results can be interpreted in terms of local plasticity induced by retinal input in early visual processing in human adults, presumably at the level of orientation-gradient sensitive cells in primary visual cortex.
Keywords
Discrimination (Psychology); Human; Learning; Male; Neuronal Plasticity; Vision, Monocular; Visual Cortex/physiology
Other Information
Web page of Avi Karni.
Web page of Dov Sagi.
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