https://www.pisavisionlab.org Research centre dedicated to frontier, interdisciplinary research of human perception Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:37:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.10 https://www.pisavisionlab.org/2026/07/09/visually-guided-voluntary-actions-boost-short-term-ocular-dominance-plasticity/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:19:35 +0000 https://www.pisavisionlab.org/?p=5392 Scientific Reports Short-term monocular deprivation transiently shifts ocular dominance in favor of the deprived eye. Here we asked whether the effect of a one-hour monocular deprivation was enhanced by the execution of a task requiring visually guided goal-directed actions, compared to a passive viewing condition where participants watched a replay of their own actions. Although the visual input was the same across conditions, we found a stronger ocular dominance shift when participants actively performed the task. These results provide strong evidence that voluntary, goal-directed actions modulate visual plasticity. Cecilia Steinwurzel, Giacomo Pennella, Maria Concetta Morrone, Giulio Sandini & Paola Binda https://www.pisavisionlab.org/2026/07/09/visually-guided-voluntary-actions-boost-short-term-ocular-dominance-plasticity/s41598-026-51966-1/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-51966-1