Integrating statistical learning into cognitive science

L Bogaerts, R Frost, MH Christiansen - Journal of Memory and Language, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Unraveling the interconnections between statistical learning and dyslexia: A review of recent empirical studies

S Singh, CM Conway - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
One important aspect of human cognition involves the learning of structured information
encountered in our environment, a phenomenon known as statistical learning. A growing …

Reading and the neurocognitive bases of statistical learning

OM Sawi, J Rueckl - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The processes underlying word reading are shaped by statistical properties of the writing
system. According to some theoretical perspectives, reading acquisition should be …

Statistical learning as an individual ability: Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence

N Siegelman, R Frost - Journal of memory and language, 2015 - Elsevier
Although the power of statistical learning (SL) in explaining a wide range of linguistic
functions is gaining increasing support, relatively little research has focused on this …

The multi-component nature of statistical learning

J Arciuli - … Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The central argument presented in this paper is that statistical learning (SL) is an ability
comprised of multiple components that operate largely implicitly. Components relating to the …

Individual differences in learning the regularities between orthography, phonology and semantics predict early reading skills

N Siegelman, JG Rueckl, LM Steacy, SJ Frost… - Journal of memory and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Statistical views of literacy development maintain that proficient reading requires the
assimilation of myriad statistical regularities present in the writing system. Indeed, previous …

Do infants retain the statistics of a statistical learning experience? Insights from a developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective

RL Gómez - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Statistical structure abounds in language. Human infants show a striking capacity for using
statistical learning (SL) to extract regularities in their linguistic environments, a process …

Domain generality and specificity of statistical learning and its relation with reading ability

YH Hung, SJ Frost, KR Pugh - Reading and dyslexia: From basic functions …, 2018 - Springer
Reading is to map orthographic units onto an existing phonologic-semantic system of its
corresponding spoken language. Neuroimaging studies have shown that the print-speech …

Linguistic entrenchment: Prior knowledge impacts statistical learning performance

N Siegelman, L Bogaerts, A Elazar, J Arciuli, R Frost - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Statistical Learning (SL) is typically considered to be a domain-general mechanism by which
cognitive systems discover the underlying statistical regularities in the input. Recent findings …

Towards a theory of individual differences in statistical learning

N Siegelman, L Bogaerts… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In recent years, statistical learning (SL) research has seen a growing interest in tracking
individual performance in SL tasks, mainly as a predictor of linguistic abilities. We review …