Comments on ‘‘Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/: A first report’’ [J. S. Logan, S. E. Lively, and D. B. Pisoni, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 874–886 (1991)]

An attempt to improve our understanding of how laboratory training affects cross-language speech perception was reported recently by Logan et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 874–886 (1991)]. However, several problems in methodology have prompted a critique of their report. The following discussion explores these problems in an effort to clarify the issues and assess the claims of the authors.