Revealing the relationships between perceptual representations in the brain and
mechanisms of adult perceptual learning is of great importance, potentially leading to …

One of the most exciting recent findings in neuroscience has been the capacity for neural
plasticity in adult humans and animals. Studies of perceptual learning have provided key …

This study compared the influence of musical and psychoacoustical training on auditory
pitch discrimination abilities. In a first experiment, pitch discrimination thresholds for pure …

Major, rapid performance improvements in perceptual training are often dismissed as'
task'or'procedural'learning because they are fast and generalize within a task. We assessed …

With practice, people become better at discriminating two similar stimuli, such as two
sounds. The neural mechanisms that underlie this type of learning have been of interest to …

The ability to detect and discriminate attributes of sounds improves with practice.
Determining how such auditory learning generalizes to stimuli and tasks that are not …

Objectives: The aims of this study were to (i) evaluate the efficacy of phoneme discrimination
training for hearing and cognitive abilities of adults aged 50 to 74 years with mild …

Prosody is an important tool of human communication, carrying both affective and pragmatic
messages in speech. Prosody recognition relies on processing of acoustic cues, such as the …

Olfactory perceptual learning is a relatively long-term, learned increase in perceptual acuity,
and has been described in both humans and animals. Data from recent electrophysiological …

Abstract Primary (“early”) sensory cortices have been viewed as stimulus analyzers devoid
of function in learning, memory, and cognition. However, studies combining sensory …