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

DOI 10.1101/2025.07.21.665859

humanimaging

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintMar 26, 2025

Goal-directed visual information processing with GABAergic inhibition in parietal cortex

Zhiyan Wang, Sinah Wiborg, Antonia Wittmann…·Sebastian M. Frank

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.

DOI 10.1101/2025.03.26.645504

humanstatistical model

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintJan 2, 2022

Efficient learning in children with rapid GABA boosting after training

Sebastian Frank, Markus Becker, Andrea Qi…·Takeo Watanabe

Children learn more efficiently than adults due to faster stabilization of learning with rapid GABA boosting after training.

DOI 10.1101/2022.01.02.474022

human

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