Zhiyan Wang

The paper investigates how task-relevance and perceptual salience of visual signals affect excitatory processing in early visual areas and modulate visual perceptual learning.

The paper investigates how GABAergic inhibition in parietal cortex aids in tracking visual targets amidst distractors, showing that increased GABA and decreased glutamate correlate with better tracking performance.

The paper shows the first-night effect reduces sleep's benefit on visual plasticity and alters neurochemical processes during sleep.

The paper compares neuronal mechanisms of learning a visual task between patients with body dysmorphic disorder and healthy individuals, finding substantial differences in brain activation patterns.

The paper investigates the role of midbrain and cortical prediction error signals in visual perceptual learning, finding that only cortical signals contribute to performance improvement.

This study uses DecNef to show that unconscious exposure-based visual perceptual learning occurs in V1/V2 without conscious perception of motion.

This study shows that offline performance gains in visual perceptual learning occur for an orientation detection task, with gains specific to the trained feature and linked to sigma activity during sleep.

The paper measures neurochemical balance during sleep stages and finds NREM sleep increases plasticity for performance gains while REM sleep stabilizes learning post-training.