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Filter by:People's perceptual skills can significantly affect their abilities to make optimal decisions, judgments, and actions in real-world dynamic environments. Perceptual learning refers to training and experiences to induce improvements in the ability to make sense of what people see, hear, feel, taste or smell based on ambiguous sensory information. In this study, investigators hypothesise that there exist neural signatures that robustly encode the conscious visual perception of rotations of a cursor and the magnitudes of these rotations in a novel, rotation-based perceptual learning task. Investigators also hypothesise that online, instantaneous EEG-based feedback on subjects' visual perceptions of rotations with an EEG-based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) can foster perceptual learning much more effectively than behaviour perceptual training, especially in very small rotation magnitudes that represent extremely difficult perceptual tasks.
Recently, we have shown functional resonance imaging (fMRI) that variations in signal induced by a language task were significantly lower in a semantic region of the left hemisphere (comprised of that part pars triangularis of the inferior frontal gyrus and the temporal gyri medium and angular) in schizophrenic patients compared with controls matched for age, sex, level of education and handedness. Investigators wish to test the hypothesis that functional modification of the hemispherical specialization is specific language and also specific for schizophrenia.