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Brown University: Reward Improves Visual Perceptual Learning -- But Only After People Sleep
January 23, 2020
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 23 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Brown University issued the following news release:

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- A new study from Brown researchers finds that rewards improve performance on a visual perceptual task only if participants sleep after training.

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Past studies have found that rewarding participants during a visual perceptual task leads to performance gains. However, new research suggests that these performance gains occur o . . .

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