Distributional learning drives statistical suppression and deafening.

Unlabelled: Humans and other animals use information about how likely it is for something to happen. The absolute and relative probability of an event influences a remarkable breadth of behaviors, from foraging for food to comprehending linguistic constructions -- even when these probabilities are learned implicitly. It is less clear how, and under what circumstances, statistical learning of simple probabilities might drive changes in perception and cognition.

Spoken Word Recognition in Listeners with Mild Dementia Symptoms.

Background: Difficulty understanding speech is a common complaint of older adults. In quiet, speech perception is often assumed to be relatively automatic. However, higher-level cognitive processes play a key role in successful communication in noise.

A Multi-Dataset Evaluation of Frame Censoring for Motion Correction in Task-Based fMRI.

Subject motion during fMRI can affect our ability to accurately measure signals of interest. In recent years, frame censoring-that is, statistically excluding motion-contaminated data within the general linear model using nuisance regressors-has appeared in several task-based fMRI studies as a mitigation strategy. However, there have been few systematic investigations quantifying its efficacy.