The role of age and executive function in auditory category learning.

ABSTRACT: Auditory categorization is a natural and adaptive process that allows for the organization of high-dimensional, continuous acoustic information into discrete representations. Studies in the visual domain have identified a rule-based learning system that learns and reasons via a hypothesis-testing process that requires working memory and executive attention. The rule-based learning system in vision shows a protracted development, reflecting the influence of maturing prefrontal function on visual categorization. The aim of the current study was twofold: (a) to examine the developmental trajectory of rule-based auditory category learning from childhood through adolescence and into early adulthood and (b) to examine the extent to which individual differences in rule-based category learning rel

SUBMITTER: Reetzke R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4666757 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature