Reports published in Vision Research during the late years of the 20th century described
surprising effects of long-term sensitivity improvement with some basic visual tasks as a …

Neural slowing is commonly noted in older adults, with consequences for sensory, motor,
and cognitive domains. One of the deleterious effects of neural slowing is impairment of …

This chapter highlights the key role of two main factors, attentional control and reward
processing, in unlocking brain plasticity. We first review the evidence for the role that each of …

Purpose: The goal of this review article is to reinvigorate interest in lipreading and lipreading
training for adults with acquired hearing loss. Most adults benefit from being able to see the …

Perceptual learning refers to a long‐term change in the ability to extract perceptual
information from the environment that arises via experience or practice. In this chapter, we …

Covert attention and perceptual learning enhance perceptual performance. The relation
between these two mechanisms is largely unknown. Previously, we showed that …

Within a few sentences, listeners learn to understand severely degraded speech such as
noise-vocoded speech. However, individuals vary in the amount of such perceptual learning …

The effects of aging and age-related hearing loss on the ability to learn degraded speech
are not well understood. This study was designed to compare the perceptual learning of time …

Traditionally, speech perception training paradigms have not adequately taken into account
the possibility that there may be modality-specific requirements for perceptual learning with …

Categories are fundamental to everyday life and the ability to learn new categories is
relevant across the lifespan. Categories are ubiquitous across modalities, supporting …