Learning is using past experiences to inform new behaviors and actions. Because all
experiences are unique, learning always requires some generalization. An effective way of …

This article presents a review of the effects of adverse conditions (ACs) on the perceptual,
linguistic, cognitive, and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech recognition …

This study investigated talker-dependent and talker-independent perceptual adaptation to
foreign-accent English. Experiment 1 investigated talker-dependent adaptation by …

Human beings have an amazing capacity to learn new skills and adapt to new
environments. However, several obstacles remain to be overcome in designing paradigms …

Studies evaluating phonological contrast learning typically investigate either the
predictiveness of specific pretraining aptitude measures or the efficacy of different …

Revealing the relationships between perceptual representations in the brain and
mechanisms of adult perceptual learning is of great importance, potentially leading to …

Peripheral and central structures along the auditory pathway contribute to speech
processing and learning. However, because speech requires the use of functionally and …

Languages are powerful solutions to coordination problems: They provide stable, shared
expectations about how the words we say correspond to the beliefs and intentions in our …

Two experiments used the head-mounted eye-tracking methodology to examine the time
course of lexical activation in the face of a non-phonemic cue, talker variation. We found that …

Understanding the structure of sociolinguistic variation requires understanding what
information it coveys to listeners and how. Variation not only correlates with social structures …