The ability to detect and discriminate attributes of sounds improves with practice. Determining how such auditory learning generalizes to stimuli and tasks that are not encountered during training can ...

It is most common in primary school, affecting more than 5% of children. A person with auditory processing disorder usually has normal hearing, which means they can detect very soft sounds.

In another case, sequences of robin-like alarm calls were used by a towhee to form unusual, distinctive song-types during bouts of singing. These observations suggest that some aspects of towhee alarm ...