AN INVESTIGATION OF PERCEPTUAL SKILLS AND COGNITIVE STRATEGIES USING FUNCTIONAL

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The objective of this research is to determine whether an individual's performance level on a set of visual perceptual skills tasks can be improved sufficiently by means of specialized training software to rival that of those naturally-talented individuals who demonstrate high performance levels without training. The similarity of the neural mechanisms supporting the visual processing by the trained individuals to that of the naturally-talented individuals will be assessed by means of functional brain imaging. The goals of this research are thus to examine the neural mechanisms of the perceptual and cognitive changes associated with specific visual training.