How repeated training or practice leads to long-term performance improvements is one of the fundamental questions in skill acquisition. Although long-term benefits of perceptual learning have been ...

Perceptual learning in speech processing refers to the brain’s capacity to adaptively tune auditory representations in response to variable and often challenging listening conditions. Listeners ...

Contemporary research in cognitive science, philosophy of mind and educational science is converging on a powerful idea: perception is neither a passive given nor a simple processing of information, ...

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, termed "one-shot learning," have remained unknown. A mysterious type of ...

Just as a musician can train to more sharply distinguish subtle differences in pitch, mammals can improve their ability to interpret hearing, vision, and other senses with practice. This process, ...

Here's why most adults aren't "smarter than an 8th grader" when it comes to visual perceptual learning (VPL). Neuroscientists at Brown University recently discovered that school-aged children ...