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  1. Dual mechanisms governing reward-driven perceptual learning

    Article • F1000Research, September 2015, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  2. Neural mechanism of reactivation of consolidated perceptual learning revealed by the concentration of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  3. External reward facilitates visual perceptual learning over a night’s sleep

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  4. Sigma activity originated in the early visual cortex during sleep associated with visual perceptual learning

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  5. Explaining anterograde and retrograde interference in visual perceptual learning by a limited plasticity resource model

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  6. The neural mechanism of stabilization of perceptual learning revealed by the concentration of excitatory and inhibitory neurotrasmitter

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  7. Real-Time Strategy Video Game Experience and Visual Perceptual Learning

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, July 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  8. Frequent Video Game Players Resist Perceptual Interference

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2015, PLOS

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  9. Visual perceptual learning by operant conditioning training follows rules of contingency

    Article • Visual Cognition, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  10. Perceptual Learning: Toward a Comprehensive Theory

    Article • Annual Review of Psychology, January 2015, Annual Reviews

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe, Dr Yuka Sasaki

  11. Reduction in the retinotopic early visual cortex with normal aging and magnitude of perceptual learning

    Article • Neurobiology of Aging, January 2015, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  12. Visual Perceptual Learning and Sleep

    Article • December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  13. Age-Related Declines of Stability in Visual Perceptual Learning

    Article • Current Biology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  14. White matter in the older brain is more plastic than in the younger brain

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2014, Nature

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  15. Reward eliminates retrieval-induced forgetting

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  16. The neural changes associated particularly with perceptual learning trained with reward are not essential to perceptual learning in general

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  17. Age-Related Differential Transfer of Improved Contrast Sensitivity with Perceptual Learning

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  18. Location specific sleep spindle activity in the early visual areas and perceptual learning

    Article • Vision Research, June 2014, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  19. Optimization of perceptual learning: Effects of task difficulty and external noise in older adults

    Article • Vision Research, June 2014, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  20. Perceptual learning – The past, present and future

    Article • Vision Research, June 2014, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  21. The first-night effect suppresses the strength of slow-wave activity originating in the visual areas during sleep

    Article • Vision Research, June 2014, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  22. Two-stage model in perceptual learning: toward a unified theory

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, April 2014, Wiley

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  23. Enhanced Spontaneous Oscillations in the Supplementary Motor Area Are Associated with Sleep-Dependent Offline Learning of Finger-Tapping Motor-Sequence Task

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, August 2013, Society for Neuroscience

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  24. Reconsolidation in visual perceptual learning

    Article • Journal of Vision, July 2013, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  25. The boosting effect of negative feedback on perceptual learning

    Article • Journal of Vision, July 2013, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  26. Perceptual Learning and Aging: Improved Performance for Low-Contrast Motion Discrimination

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  27. Consolidated learning can be susceptible to gradually-developing interference in prolonged motor learning

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  28. Is perceptual learning associated with changes in a sensory region?

    Article • F1000 Biology Reports, December 2012, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  29. Decoding Reveals Plasticity in V3A as a Result of Motion Perceptual Learning

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2012, PLOS

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  30. Resetting capacity limitations revealed by long-lasting elimination of attentional blink through training

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  31. Perceptual learning solely induced by feedback

    Article • Vision Research, May 2012, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  32. Accounting for speed–accuracy tradeoff in perceptual learning

    Article • Vision Research, May 2012, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  33. Monocular deprivation boosts long-term visual plasticity

    Article • Current Biology, May 2012, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  34. Task Attention Facilitates Learning of Task-Irrelevant Stimuli

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2012, PLOS

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  35. Recent progress in perceptual learning research

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, April 2012, Wiley

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  36. Perceptual Learning Incepted by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback Without Stimulus Presentation

    Article • Science, December 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  37. Spatial Shifts of Audio-Visual Interactions by Perceptual Learning are Specific to the Trained Orientation and Eye

    Article • Seeing and Perceiving, November 2011, Brill

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  38. Effects of meditation on consolidation of perceptual learning

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2011, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  39. Perceptual learning solely induced by feedback

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2011, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  40. White matter connectivity changes between visual and higher-level cortical regions in association with perceptual learning revealed by diffusion tensor tractography

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2011, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  41. Ventral lateral prefrontal areas reflect an influence of past experiences of weak signals on perceptual decision making

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2011, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  42. Multisensory perceptual learning reshapes both fast and slow mechanisms of crossmodal processing

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  43. Exogenous temporal cues enhance recognition memory in an object-based manner

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  44. Accounting for speed-accuracy tradeoff in visual perceptual learning

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  45. Feedback inhibits untrained motion directions in perceptual learning

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  46. Perceptual Learning: Cortical Changes When Cats Learn a New Trick

    Article • Current Biology, July 2010, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  47. Unattended exposure to components of speech sounds yields same benefits as explicit auditory training

    Article • Cognition, June 2010, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  48. Effect of reward on perceptual learning

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  49. Modulation of visual perceptual learning by sounds

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  50. How can subliminal perceptual learning be active?

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  51. Perceptual learning without perception

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  52. Perceptual learning: Functions, mechanisms, and applications

    Article • Vision Research, February 2010, Elsevier

    dennis m levi, Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  53. Perceptual learning rules based on reinforcers and attention

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, February 2010, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  54. Roles of awareness, attention and reward in perceptual learning

    Article • Neuroscience Research, January 2010, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  55. Perceptual learning

    Article • Current Biology, January 2010, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  56. MEG cortical activation during sleep correlated with improvement of a motor sequence learning

    Article • Neuroscience Research, January 2010, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  57. Advances in visual perceptual learning and plasticity

    Article • Nature Reviews Neuroscience, December 2009, Nature

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  58. Perceptual learning: Functions, mechanisms, and applications

    Article • Vision Research, October 2009, Elsevier

    dennis m levi, Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  59. Interference and feature specificity in visual perceptual learning

    Article • Vision Research, October 2009, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  60. The phenomenon of task-irrelevant perceptual learning

    Article • Vision Research, October 2009, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  61. When attention interrupts learning: Inhibitory effects of attention on TIPL

    Article • Vision Research, October 2009, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  62. Location-Specific Cortical Activation Changes during Sleep after Training for Perceptual Learning

    Article • Current Biology, August 2009, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  63. 3D surface perception from motion involves a temporal-parietal network

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, August 2009, Wiley

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  64. Selectiveness of the exposure-based perceptual learning: What to learn and what not to learn

    Article • Learning & Perception, June 2009, Akademiai Kiado

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  65. Roles of attention in perceptual learning from perspectives of psychophysics and animal learning

    Article • Learning & Behavior, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  66. Varieties of perceptual learning

    Article • Learning & Behavior, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  67. Specificity of auditory-guided visual perceptual learning suggests crossmodal plasticity in early visual cortex

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  68. Rewards Evoke Learning of Unconsciously Processed Visual Stimuli in Adult Humans

    Article • Neuron, March 2009, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  69. Is Task-Irrelevant Learning Really Task-Irrelevant?

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2008, PLOS

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  70. Defining a Link between Perceptual Learning and Attention

    Article • PLoS Biology, August 2008, PLOS

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  71. Task-irrelevant learning occurs only when the irrelevant feature is weak

    Article • Current Biology, June 2008, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  72. Different Dynamics of Performance and Brain Activation in the Time Course of Perceptual Learning

    Article • Neuron, March 2008, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  73. Effects of “invisible” stimuli on plasticity

    Article • Neuroscience Research, January 2007, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  74. Perceptual Learning of Motion Leads to Faster Flicker Perception

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2006, PLOS

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  75. Greater Disruption Due to Failure of Inhibitory Control on an Ambiguous Distractor

    Article • Science, December 2006, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  76. Requirement for high-level processing in subliminal learning

    Article • Current Biology, November 2005, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  77. Separate Processing of Different Global-Motion Structures in Visual Cortex Is Revealed by fMRI

    Article • Current Biology, November 2005, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe, Dr. Shinichi Koyama

  78. Task-specific disruption of perceptual learning

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  79. Requirement for high-level processing in subliminal learning

    Article • Current Biology, September 2005, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  80. A unified model for perceptual learning

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, July 2005, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  81. Seeing what is not there shows the costs of perceptual learning

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe, Dr. Shinichi Koyama

  82. The primary visual cortex fills in color

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2004, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  83. Perceptual learning without perception is not passive and results in robust perception

    Article • Journal of Vision, November 2004, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  84. Task-Dependent Changes of the Psychophysical Motion-Tuning Functions in the Course of Perceptual Learning

    Article • Perception, September 2004, SAGE Publications

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe, Dr. Shinichi Koyama

  85. Visual experience can substantially alter critical flicker fusion thresholds

    Article • Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental, January 2004, Wiley

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  86. Psychophysics: Is subliminal learning really passive?

    Article • Nature, March 2003, Nature

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  87. Greater plasticity in lower-level than higher-level visual motion processing in a passive perceptual learning task

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, September 2002, Nature

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe, Dr. Shinichi Koyama

  88. Perceptual learning without perception

    Article • Nature, October 2001, Nature

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  89. Differential effect of attention to translation and expansion on motion aftereffects (MAE)1Part of the research was conducted while I.M. and T.W. were respectively a Visiting Student and a Visiting Researcher in the Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Mappi...

    Article • Vision Research, April 2001, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  90. High-Level Motion Processing, edited by Takeo Watanabe

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, August 1999, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  91. The Influence of Structure from Motion on Motion Correspondence

    Article • Perception, March 1999, SAGE Publications

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  92. Task-dependent influences of attention on the activation of human primary visual cortex

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 1998, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  93. Neon Color Spreading: A Review

    Article • Perception, November 1997, SAGE Publications

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe, Dr Paola Bressan

  94. Velocity decomposition and surface decomposition—reciprocal interactions between motion and form processing

    Article • Vision Research, October 1997, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  95. Texture Laciness: The Texture Equivalent of Transparency?

    Article • Perception, March 1996, SAGE Publications

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  96. Propagation of local motion correspondence

    Article • Vision Research, October 1995, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  97. Depth release of illusory contour shape in the Ehrenstein grid

    Article • Vision Research, October 1995, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  98. Transparent surfaces defined by implicit X junctions

    Article • Vision Research, November 1993, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  99. Illusion and view stability

    Article • Nature, May 1993, Nature

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  100. Surface decomposition accompanying the perception of transparency

    Article • Spatial Vision, January 1993, Brill

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  101. Neural networks for vision and image processing

    Article • Neural Networks, January 1993, Elsevier

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  102. Illusory Occluding Contours and Surface Formation by Depth Propagation

    Article • Perception, April 1992, SAGE Publications

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  103. Orientation-contingent color aftereffects mediated by subjective transparent structures

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, March 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  104. The Role of Transparency in Perceptual Grouping and Pattern Recognition

    Article • Perception, February 1992, SAGE Publications

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  105. Texture and motion spreading, the aperture problem, and transparency

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  106. The relation between color spreading and illusory contours

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  107. Effects of luminance contrast on color spreading and illusory contour in the neon color spreading effect

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  108. Are Illusory Contours a Cause or a Consequence of Apparent Differences in Brightness and Depth in the Kanizsa Square?

    Article • Perception, August 1988, SAGE Publications

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  109. Effect of irrelevant differences as a function of the relations between relevant and irrelevant dimensions in the same-different task.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1988, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  110. Learning Curve

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  111. Orientation and Color Processing for Partially Occluded but Perceptually Complete Objects

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  112. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Task difficulty and the specificity of perceptual learning.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  113. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Complete transfer of perceptual learning across retinal locations enabled by double training.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  114. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Perceptual learning improves contrast sensitivity of V1 neurons in cats.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  115. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Physiological correlates of perceptual learning in monkey V1 and V2.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  116. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Perceptual learning specific for orientation and spatial frequency.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  117. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Neural correlates of perceptual learning: a functional MRI study of visual texture discrimination.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  118. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Neural correlates of perceptual learning in a sensory-motor, but not a sensory, cortical area.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  119. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Human perceptual learning in identifying the oblique orientation: retinotopy, orientation specificity and monocularity.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  120. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Perceptual training narrows the temporal window of multisensory binding.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  121. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Neuronal plasticity that underlies improvement in perceptual performance.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  122. Perceptual Learning

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  123. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for The functional anatomy of sleep-dependent visual skill learning.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  124. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Learning to see: experience and attention in primary visual cortex.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  125. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Posttraining transcranial magnetic stimulation of striate cortex disrupts consolidation early in visual skill learning.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe

  126. Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Improvement and impairment of visually guided behavior through LTP- and LTD-like exposure-based visual learning.

    Article • Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe