2021 Biennial Perceptual Learning Workshop

项目摘要 本申请申请资金，以支持两年一度的国际感知学习研讨会， 于2021年8月15日至20日在阿拉斯加的吉德伍德举行。 通过对各种视觉任务的练习，可以显著提高视觉感知能力。这 视觉感知学习具有提供对组织的强大洞察力和灵活性的潜力 哺乳动物的视觉系统。对视觉知觉学习可应用于临床的认识 随着年龄和疾病的增加而改善视觉功能，最近加强了优化和 确定培训范例的特点，并使成果衡量标准化。此外，中国的坚持不懈 成人视觉系统中的视觉知觉学习有助于我们对如何 在成熟的感觉皮质中保留了可塑性的能力。这一国际会议的总体目标是 会议的目的是提供一个讨论和辩论最新进展、长期辩论和 知觉学习领域的新方向。 这次会议已经成为全球各地拥有以下专业知识的个人的重要机会 知觉学习包括心理物理学、神经生理学、功能成像、计算 神经科学和知觉康复，以接受对新的未发表作品的批判性评论，以及 相互影响，相互学习。会议作为感知领域的一个重要需求而服务 学习是高度跨学科的，没有其他论坛可以将研究人员聚集在一起 对这一领域做出贡献的许多学科。会议还成功地加强了 初级和高级调查人员之间的互动，为新的合作和 通过确定该领域最重要的问题来影响后续工作。 2021年视觉感知学习工作坊的具体目标是： 具体目标1：突出知觉学习前沿领域令人振奋的新发展。 具体目标2：促进与会者之间的沟通和互动 具体目标3：通过优化性别平衡，实现最高的科学质量和多样性， 年龄、种族和国籍。

Project Summary This application requests funds to support the Biennial International Perceptual Learning Workshop, to be held August 15-20, 2021 in Girdwood, Alaska. Robust improvements in visual perception can be induced by practice on a variety of visual tasks. This visual perceptual learning has the potential to provide powerful insight into the organization and flexibility of the mammalian visual system. The recognition that visual perceptual learning can be clinically applied to improve visual functions with age and disease have intensified recent efforts to optimize and characterize training paradigms and standardize outcome measurements. In addition, the persistence of visual perceptual learning in the adult visual system contributes to a revision of our understanding of how the capacity for plasticity is retained in mature sensory cortices. The overall goal of this international conference is to provide a forum for discussion and debate of recent advances, long-term debates and new directions for the field of perceptual learning. This conference has become an important opportunity for individuals across the globe with expertise in perceptual learning ranging from psychophysics, neurophysiology, functional imaging, computational neuroscience, and perceptual rehabilitation to receive critical commentary of new unpublished work, and to influence and learn from each other. The meeting serves an important need as the field of perceptual learning is highly interdisciplinary and there are no other forums that bring together researchers across the many disciplines that contribute to the field. The meeting also has been successful in enhancing interactions between junior and senior investigators, providing opportunities for new collaborations and influencing subsequent work by identifying the most important issues in the field. The specific goals for the 2021 Visual Perceptual Learning Workshop are: Specific Aim 1: To highlight new and exciting developments on the frontiers of perceptual learning. Specific Aim 2: To promote communication and interactions between meeting attendees Specific Aim 3: To achieve the highest scientific quality and diversity, by optimizing a balance of gender, age, ethnicity, and nationality.