Infants rapidly learn the sound categories of their native language, even though they do not
receive explicit or focused training. Recent research suggests that this learning is due to …

It remains under debate whether the fusiform visual word form area (VWFA) is specific to
visual word form and whether visual expertise increases its sensitivity (Xue et al., 2006; …

The functional form of performance improvements has been extensively studied in speeded
cognitive and motor tasks; in such tasks, reductions in response times have been …

The influence of a native language on learning new speech sounds in adulthood is
addressed using a network model in which speech categories are attractors implemented …

The primary visual cortex (V1) is pre-wired to facilitate the extraction of behaviorally
important visual features. Collinear edge detectors in V1, for instance, mutually enhance …

Computational modeling of the brain holds great promise as a bridge from brain to behavior.
To fulfill this promise, however, it is not enough for models to be 'biologically plausible' …

Traditional models of perceptual learning usually assume that learning occurs through
changes of weights to fixed primitive features or dimensions. A new model for perceptual …

Performance in a perceptual task improves with practice, a phenomenon known as
perceptual learning. Its behavioral aspect has been receiving massive interest for over a …

The symbolic paradigm of cognitive modeling, championed by Minsky and Papert, Newell
and Simon, and other pioneers of the 1950's and 1960's, remains very much alive and well …

Like most theories that have wide application, signal detection theory is based upon simple
ideas. The stimulus factors that influence perceptual decisions are corrupted by random …