Perceptual learning, improvement in discriminative ability as a consequence of training, is
one of the forms of sensory system plasticity that has driven profound changes in our …

The past 20 years have seen substantial changes in our view of the nature of the processing
carried out in auditory cortex. Some processing of a cognitive nature, previously attributed to …

Recent studies of the perception of complex nonspeech sounds have shown that individual
parts of spectral-temporal waveforms become more salient through experience or selective …

Recent data on learning-related changes in animal and human auditory cortex indicate
functions beyond mere stimulus representation and simple recognition memory for stimuli …

Four fields in neurobiology which are of intense current interest are neuroplasticity,
neocortical function, the neurophysiology of learning, and information processing in sensory …

HERE we report that training-associated changes in neural activity can precede behavioral
learning. This finding suggests that speech-sound learning occurs at a pre-attentive level …

Improvement in perception takes place within the training session and from one session to
the next. The present study aims at determining the time course of perceptual learning as …

An interesting phenomenon in science is how the discovery of new techniques, findings, or
theoretical understanding can produce cyclical waves of interest in a research area. Such is …

Perceptual learning has traditionally been portrayed as a bottom-up phenomenon that
improves encoding or decoding of the trained stimulus. Cognitive skills such as attention …

The auditory cortex has a crucial role in higher cognitive functions, including the perception
of speech, music and auditory space. Cortical plasticity, as in other sensory systems, is used …