Understanding human brain plasticity and sensory perception (2025-2028)
Abstract
This project will examine how sensory areas of the human brain alter during sensory learning and how such changes in brain structure and function lead to improvements in sensory perception performance. We use cutting-edge methods that we have developed for ultra-high resolution functional brain imaging (7 Tesla MRI) and computational modelling to study markers of brain plasticity at a level never previously possible in the living human brain. The project therefore investigates the fundamental basis of human brain plasticity for sensory learning. This will provide critical new understanding of the micro-level function in sensory areas of the human brain that underpin sensory learning and perception.
