%0 Journal Article %T Motivation and Intelligence Drive Auditory Perceptual Learning %A Sygal Amitay %A Lorna Halliday %A Jenny Taylor %A Ediz Sohoglu %A David R. Moore %J PLOS ONE %D 2012 %I Public Library of Science (PLoS) %R 10.1371/journal.pone.0009816 %X Although feedback on performance is generally thought to promote perceptual learning, the role and necessity of feedback remain unclear. We investigated the effect of providing varying amounts of positive feedback while listeners attempted to discriminate between three identical tones on learning frequency discrimination. %U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009816