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Nature Neuroscience  5, 923 - 924 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nn1002-923

Perceptual learning: gain without pain?

Manfred Fahle

The author is in the Dept. of Human Neurobiology, University of Bremen, Argonnenstr. 3, D-28211 Bremen, Germany and Department of Optometry, City University, London, EC1V 0HB, UK mfahle@uni-bremen.de

Using a clever stimulus that separates local from global motion features, the authors of a new paper show that perceptual learning occurs at low cortical levels when the motion is irrelevant to the observer's task, whereas higher-level learning of the same stimulus requires attention.

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Topographic Maps in the Brain
Nature Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences

RESEARCH
Greater plasticity in lower-level than higher-level visual motion processing in a passive perceptual learning task
Nature Neuroscience Article (01 Oct 2002)

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