When the ear is attentive and working hard, it funnels clearer information to brain centers that handle memory and perception.

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Changes in how people approach a task are interesting and important, but without careful evaluation of strategy shifts, better expert performance might wrongly be attributed to more fundamental differences in perception and memory.

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The data was then processed and showed people with schizophrenia had fewer successful "dockings" in the left hippocampus area in the brain - an area known to be involved in learning, perception and memory - than healthy people.

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The temporal lobe is concerned with perception and recognition of sounds and memory.

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