Epidemiological studies identify midlife hearing loss as an independent risk factor for
dementia, estimated to account for 9% of cases. We evaluate candidate brain bases for this …

The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader
function has been proposed including aspects of perception and relational processing …

The brain basis for auditory working memory, the process of actively maintaining sounds in
memory over short periods of time, is controversial. Using functional magnetic resonance …

Sleep and memory are deeply related, but the nature of the neuroplastic processes induced
by sleep remains unclear. Here, we report that memory traces can be both formed or …

Auditory scene analysis (ASA) refers to the process (es) of parsing the complex acoustic
input into auditory perceptual objects representing either physical sources or temporal …

This work reviews the human auditory system, elucidating some of the specialized
mechanisms and non-linear pathways along the chain of events between physical sound …

Tinnitus is one of the main hearing impairments often associated with pure-tone hearing
loss, and typically manifested in the perception of phantom sounds. Nevertheless, tinnitus …

Experience continuously imprints on the brain at all stages of life. The traces it leaves behind
can produce perceptual learning [1], which drives adaptive behavior to previously …

Memory, on multiple timescales, is critical to our ability to discover the structure of our
surroundings, and efficiently interact with the environment. We combined behavioural …

Perceptual learning is a powerful mechanism to enhance perceptual abilities and to form
robust memory representations of previously unfamiliar sounds. Memory formation through …