2016/12/10 by Tsung-Ren Huang, Huang, Tsung-Ren
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #FOS: Biological sciences #Face Recognition and Perception #Neural dynamics and brain function #Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC) #Visual perception and processing mechanisms #q-bio.NC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.03270
7 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2016/12/10 · openalex publication_date 2016/12/10 · arxiv updated 2016/12/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Shibata et al. reported that humans could learn to repeatedly evoke a stimulus-associated functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity pattern in visual areas V1/V2 through which visual perceptual learning was achieved without stimulus presentation. Contrary to their attribution of visual improvements to neuroplasticity in adult V1/V2, our Hebbian learning interpretation of these data explains the attainment of better perceptual decisions without plastic V1/V2.