Statistical views of literacy development maintain that proficient reading requires the
assimilation of myriad statistical regularities present in the writing system. Indeed, previous …

Purpose The purpose of this tutorial is to explain how learning to read can be thought of as
learning statistical regularities and to demonstrate why this is relevant for theory, modeling …

This special issue bundles a set of eight empirical studies and one review article that
explore the role of statistical learning (SL) mechanisms (both domain-specific and domain …

Learning to read is a milestone in a child's life, and reading ability is a strong predictor of
academic outcomes. Some studies have revealed that individual differences in the capacity …

It has been demonstrated that statistical learning, or the ability to use statistical information to
learn the structure of one's environment, plays a role in young children's acquisition of …

Over the last two decades statistical learning (SL) has evolved into a key explanatory
mechanism underlying the incidental learning of regularities across different domains of …

Previous studies found a relationship between performance on statistical learning (SL) tasks
and reading ability and developmental dyslexia. Thus, it has been suggested that the ability …

In more than 100 years of research on the acquisition of literacy, we have made
considerable progress in understanding the underlying processes and associated linguistic …

One important aspect of human cognition involves the learning of structured information
encountered in our environment, a phenomenon known as statistical learning. A growing …

The processes underlying word reading are shaped by statistical properties of the writing
system. According to some theoretical perspectives, reading acquisition should be …