Researchers: Adult Early Visual Areas Are Sufficiently Plastic to Cause Visual Perceptual Learning (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Researchers: Adult Early Visual Areas Are Sufficiently Plastic to Cause Visual Perceptual Learning

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In the future, a person may be able to watch a computer screen and have his or her brain patterns modified to improve physical or mental performance. Researchers say an innovative learning method that uses decoded functional magnetic resonance imaging could modify brain activities to help people recuperate from an accident or disease, learn a new language or even fly a plane.

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Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation

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