Perceptual learning improves performance on many tasks, from orientation discrimination to
the identification of faces. Although conventional wisdom considered sensory cortices as …

Historically, sensory systems have been largely ignored as potential loci of information
storage in the neurobiology of learning and memory. They continued to be relegated to the …

A study that goes beyond the debate over functional specialization to describe the ways that
emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain. The idea that a specific brain …

The primary sensory cortex is positioned at a confluence of bottom-up dedicated sensory
inputs and top-down inputs related to higher-order sensory features, attentional state, and …

Numerous studies show that practice can result in performance improvements on low-level
visual perceptual tasks [1–5]. However, such learning is characteristically difficult and slow …

Before a natural sound can be recognized, an auditory signature of its source must be
learned through experience. Here we used random waveforms to probe the formation of …

The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of two auditory processing
interventions for developmental dyslexia, one based on rhythm and one based on phonetic …

The ability to localize sound sources in three-dimensional space was tested in humans. In
Experiment 1, naive subjects listened to noises filtered with subject-specific head-related …

It is widely presumed that odor quality is a direct outcome of odorant structure, but human
studies indicate that molecular knowledge of an odorant is not always sufficient to predict …

Sensory stimuli become easier to detect or distinguish with practice. It is generally assumed
that the task-relevant stimulus dimension becomes increasingly more salient as a result of …