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SUBMITTER: Pascucci D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4420259 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pascucci David D Mastropasqua Tommaso T Turatto Massimo M
PloS one 20150505 5
Task Irrelevant Perceptual Learning (TIPL) shows that the brain's discriminative capacity can improve also for invisible and unattended visual stimuli. It has been hypothesized that this form of "unconscious" neural plasticity is mediated by an endogenous reward mechanism triggered by the correct task performance. Although this result has challenged the mandatory role of attention in perceptual learning, no direct evidence exists of the hypothesized link between target recognition, reward and TI ...[more]