Learning to see (better): Improving visual deficits with perceptual learning

• Main Author: Marcello Maniglia (auth)
• Other Authors: Gianluca Campana (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Vision restoration training; Pathologic nystagmus; tRNS; Video Games; Myopia; Amblyopia; Blindness; Presbyopia; Crowding; Macular Degeneration
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Perceptual learning can be defined as a long lasting improvement in a perceptual skill following a systematic training, due to changes in brain plasticity at the level of sensory or perceptual areas. Its efficacy has been reported for a number of visual tasks, such as detection or discrimination of...