Research in the neurosciences continues to provide evidence that sleep plays a role in the
processes of learning and memory. There is less of a consensus, however, regarding the …

Singing provides a unique opportunity to examine music performance—the musical
instrument is contained wholly within the body, thus eliminating the need for creating …

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

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 …

The auditory CNS is influenced profoundly by sounds heard during development. Auditory
deprivation and augmented sound exposure can each perturb the maturation of neural …

Recent work demonstrates that learning to understand noise-vocoded (NV) speech alters
sublexical perceptual processes but is enhanced by the simultaneous provision of higher …

We tested changes in cortical functional response to auditory patterns in a configural
learning paradigm. We trained 10 human listeners to discriminate micromelodies (consisting …

Frequency discrimination thresholds (FDTs) at 750, 1500, 3000, and 6000 Hz were
measured in 32 normal-hearing listeners before and after each listener practiced the task for …

Materials and methods We conducted a controlled intervention trial of cardiac auscultatory
proficiency at the Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Penn, from July 2003 …

(Central) auditory processing disorder (abbreviated here APD) is defined as a deficit in the
processing of auditory information, despite normal hearing thresholds, that primarily involves …