My research is seeking to understand the brain plasticity mechanisms that enable us to translate visual experience into perceptual decisions and adaptive behaviors. Specifically, I employ behavioral approaches combined with computational modelling, brain imaging techniques (e.g., functional MRI, resting, MRS, etc) to investigate: (1) Perceptual learning: in particular, how high-level cognitive functions (e.g., attention, decision making) are involved during learning; (2) Statistical learning: how people extract the regularities through exposure to the environment抯 statistics and exploit them to predict novel events; (3) The mechanisms of neural inhibition in human learning.