Learning is fundamental to animal survival. Animals must learn to link sensory cues in the
environment to actions that lead to reward or avoid punishment. Rapid learning can then be …

The literature suggests that listeners do not pay equal attention to all available acoustic
information. Instead, when perceiving speech, they place more importance on some …

Learning relates to behavioral adaptation according to intrinsic objectives and external
constraints. In an environment determined by unobservable and changing rules, it is …