scholarly journals Use it before you lose it: greater efficacy of visual training for recovering contrast sensitivity in subacute cortical blindness

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (15) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L. Saionz ◽  
Michael D. Melnick ◽  
Duje Tadin ◽  
Krystel R. Huxlin
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Sensitivity ◽  
Cortical Blindness ◽  
Visual Training

scholarly journals Is improved contrast sensitivity a natural consequence of visual training?

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Aaron Levi ◽  
Danielle Shaked ◽  
Duje Tadin ◽  
Krystel R. Huxlin
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Sensitivity ◽  
Natural Consequence ◽  
Visual Training

scholarly journals Boosting learning efficacy with non-invasive brain stimulation in intact and brain-damaged humans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Herpich ◽  
Michael D Melnick ◽  
Sara Agosta ◽  
Krystel Huxlin ◽  
Duje Tadin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Motion ◽  
Random Noise ◽  
Cortical Blindness ◽  
Motion Processing ◽  
Visual Training ◽  
Visual Motion Perception ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Behavioral Studies ◽  
Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation ◽  
Learning Efficacy

Numerous behavioral studies have shown that visual function can improve with training, although perceptual refinements generally require weeks to months of training to attain. This, along with questions about long-term retention of learning, limits practical and clinical applications of many such paradigms. Here, we show for the first time that just 10 days of visual training coupled with transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) over visual areas causes dramatic improvements in visual motion perception. Relative to control conditions and anodal stimulation, tRNS-enhanced learning was at least twice as fast, and, crucially, it persisted for 6 months after the end of training and stimulation. Notably, tRNS also boosted learning in patients with chronic cortical blindness, leading to recovery of motion processing in the blind field after just 10 days of training, a period too short to elicit enhancements with training alone. In sum, our results reveal a remarkable enhancement of the capacity for long-lasting plastic and restorative changes when a neuromodulatory intervention is coupled with visual training.

scholarly journals Is improved contrast sensitivity a natural consequence of visual training?

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1158-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Levi ◽  
D. Shaked ◽  
D. Tadin ◽  
K. Huxlin
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Sensitivity ◽  
Natural Consequence ◽  
Visual Training

Acuity and Contrast Sensitivity of the Cat

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph Blake ◽  
Steven Cool
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Sensitivity
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