Success and failure in teaching the [r]-[l] contrast to Japanese adults: Tests of a Hebbian model of plasticity and stabilization in spoken language perception

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 89-108

  McCandliss, Bruce D ^a,b   Fiez, Julie A ^a,b   Protopapas, Athanassios ^c   Conway, Mary ^a,b   McClelland, James L ^a,d,e  

^a CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Scientific Learning Corporation   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MODEL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; SPEECH; TRAINING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STANDARD; TEACHING;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEACHING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0036594317     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.2.2.89     Document Type: Article

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