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SUBMITTER: Caras ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5604044 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Caras Melissa L ML Sanes Dan H DH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170828 37
Practice sharpens our perceptual judgments, a process known as perceptual learning. Although several brain regions and neural mechanisms have been proposed to support perceptual learning, formal tests of causality are lacking. Furthermore, the temporal relationship between neural and behavioral plasticity remains uncertain. To address these issues, we recorded the activity of auditory cortical neurons as gerbils trained on a sound detection task. Training led to improvements in cortical and beha ...[more]