Publications by authors named "Yongqian Song"
Article Synopsis
- Visual perceptual learning (VPL) leads to long-term improvements in visual task performance through training, demonstrating the brain's plasticity even in adults.
- A study using magnetoencephalography (MEG) showed that training in a visual motion direction task improved participants' performance and altered their brain responses, specifically enhancing accuracy and reducing latency in processing information about moving stimuli.
- The findings reveal that VPL strengthens neural connections in early visual areas and provides a clearer understanding of the timing and mechanisms involved in visual processing after learning, complementing previous fMRI research.
Perceptual learning has been widely used to study the plasticity of the visual system in adults. Owing to the belief that practice makes perfect, perceptual learning protocols usually require subjects to practice a task thousands of times over days, even weeks. However, we know very little about the relationship between training amount and behavioral improvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhen one's central vision is deprived, a spared part of the peripheral retina acts as a pseudofovea for fixation. The neural mechanisms underlying this compensatory adjustment remain unclear. Here we report cortical reorganization induced by simulated central vision loss.
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