Training programs aimed to alleviate or improve auditory-cognitive abilities have either
experienced mixed success or remain to be fully validated. The limited benefits of such …

There is a long-standing debate about whether categories are represented by individual
category members (exemplars) or by the central tendency abstracted from individual …

Speech perception requires the effortless mapping from smooth, seemingly continuous
changes in sound features into discrete perceptual units, a conversion exemplified in the …

Learning a new language during adulthood is a markedly difficult and heterogeneous
process. Whether language learning engages the same left-lateralized language network as …

The areas of the brain that encode color categorically have not yet been reliably identified.
Here, we used functional MRI adaptation to identify neuronal populations that represent …

Foreign language learning in adulthood often takes place in classrooms where learning
outcomes vary widely among students, for both initial learning and long-term retention …

Adult listeners often struggle to learn to distinguish speech sounds not present in their native
language. High-variability training sets (ie, stimuli produced by multiple talkers or stimuli that …

A significant neural challenge in speech perception includes extracting discrete phonetic
categories from continuous and multidimensional signals despite varying task demands and …

Musical training is associated with behavioral and neurophysiological enhancements in
auditory processing for both musical and nonmusical sounds (eg, speech). Yet, whether the …

We investigated whether the categorical perception (CP) of speech might also provide a
mechanism that aids its perception in noise. We varied signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)[clear, 0 …