Learning and memory involve the storage of specific sensory experiences. However, until
recently the idea that the primary sensory cortices could store specific memory traces had …

The current review constitutes the first comprehensive look at the possibility that the
mismatch negativity (MMN, the deflection of the auditory ERP/ERF elicited by stimulus …

We investigated the hypothesis that task performance can rapidly and adaptively reshape
cortical receptive field properties in accord with specific task demands and salient sensory …

The primary sensory cortex is positioned at a confluence of bottom-up dedicated sensory
inputs and top-down inputs related to higher-order sensory features, attentional state, and …

Developmental deficits that affect speech perception increase the risk of language and
literacy problems, which can lead to lowered academic and occupational accomplishment …

Animals require the ability to ignore sensory stimuli that have no consequence yet respond
to the same stimuli when they become useful. However, the brain circuits that govern this …

Social learning (SL) through experience with conspecifics can facilitate the acquisition of
many behaviors. Thus, when Mongolian gerbils are exposed to a demonstrator performing …

Processing of rapidly successive acoustic stimuli can be markedly improved by sensory
training. To investigate the cortical mechanisms underlying such temporal plasticity, we …

Auditory experience leads to myriad changes in processing in the central auditory system.
We recently described task-related plasticity characterized by rapid modulation of spectro …

Recent data on learning-related changes in animal and human auditory cortex indicate
functions beyond mere stimulus representation and simple recognition memory for stimuli …