A particularly important feature of music is that its structure often involves patterns that allow listeners to form expectations, based on statistical learning, which may subsequently be fulfilled or ...

Perceptual learning for speech, defined as long-lasting changes in speech recognition following exposure or practice occurs under many challenging listening conditions. However, this learning is also ...

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, ...

Can the way we see things define their outcomes? American Sociologist William Isaac Thomas, who is attributed with the idea of the Thomas Theorem, once said, “Real facts are the ways in which people ...

Traditionally, perception and cognition have been considered distinct domains of psychological science. Perception was understood to be the raw data collector—our sensory touchpoint with the external ...