Can multisensory training aid visual learning? A computational investigation

Multisensory training can promote or impede visual perceptual learning of speech stimuli: visual-tactile vs. visual-auditory training

In a series of studies we have been investigating how multisensory training affects unisensory perceptual learning with speech stimuli. Previously, we reported that audiovisual (AV) training with speech stimuli can promote auditory-only (AO) perceptual learning in normal-hearing adults but can impede learning in congenitally deaf adults with late-acquired cochlear implants. Here, impeder and pr...

Visual Learning in Multisensory Environments

We study the claim that multisensory environments are useful for visual learning because nonvisual percepts can be processed to produce error signals that people can use to adapt their visual systems. This hypothesis is motivated by a Bayesian network framework. The framework is useful because it ties together three observations that have appeared in the literature: (a) signals from nonvisual m...

Does Visual Development Aid Visual Learning?

Desirable Difficulty in Learning: A Computational Investigation

Certain difficulties of a word learning situation can promote long-term learning, and thus are referred to as “desirable difficulties”. We use a computational modelling approach to examine the possible explanatory factors of the observed patterns in a cross-situational word learning experiment. Our results suggest that the within-trial ambiguity and the presentation duration of each trial in ad...

Multisensory Statistical Learning: Can Associations between Perceptual Categories Be Acquired?

Statistical learning, the process by which people learn patterns of information from their environment that they can apply to new situations, is central to the development of many higher order cognitive skills. Despite a growing research literature, little is still known about how statistical learning operates across perceptual categories. To investigate this issue we assessed college students ...