Unsupervised visual learning is revealed for task-irrelevant natural scenes due to reduced attentional suppression effects in visual areas
Takeo Watanabe, Yuka Sasaki, Takuro Zama, Julian Matthews, Daiki Ogawa, Kazuhisa Shibata
The paper shows that task-irrelevant natural scenes induce visual perceptual learning through unsupervised learning, which is not suppressed by attention, unlike artificial stimuli.
Nature Communications · May 18, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience