Highlights•Infants use statistical learning to acquire environmental structure and
regularities.•Statistical learning operates over multiple modalities and levels of …

A growing body of research investigates individual differences in the learning of statistical
structure, tying them to variability in cognitive (dis) abilities. This approach views statistical …

Human learning is supported by multiple neural mechanisms that maturate at different rates
and interact in mostly cooperative but also sometimes competitive ways. We tested the …

Statistical learning is a learning mechanism that does not directly depend on knowledge of a
language but predicts language and literacy outcomes for children and adults. Research …

Studies of non‐linguistic statistical learning (SL) have often linked performance in SL tasks
with differences in language outcomes. Most of these studies have focused on Western and …

We investigate implicit vocabulary learning by adults who are exposed to a language in their
ambient environment. Most New Zealanders do not speak Māori, yet are exposed to it …

The ability to discover regularities in the environment, such as syllable patterns in speech, is
known as statistical learning. Previous studies have shown that statistical learning is …

Recent work shows that ambient exposure in everyday situations can yield implicit
knowledge of a language that an observer does not speak. We replicate and extend this …

It is still an unresolved question why adults do not learn languages as effortlessly as children
do. We tested the hypothesis that the higher cognitive control abilities in adults interfere with …

Our brains are capable of discriminating similar inputs (pattern separation) and rapidly
generalizing across inputs (statistical learning). Are these two processes dissociable in …