Changes in statistical learning across development

TA Forest, ML Schlichting, KD Duncan… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Statistical learning enables learners to extract the environmental regularities necessary to
piece together the structure of their worlds. The capacity for statistical learning and its …

Multisensory perception constrains the formation of object categories: a review of evidence from sensory-driven and predictive processes on categorical decisions

FN Newell, E McKenna, MA Seveso… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although object categorization is a fundamental cognitive ability, it is also a complex process
going beyond the perception and organization of sensory stimulation. Here we review …

Unlocking adults' implicit statistical learning by cognitive depletion

EHM Smalle, T Daikoku, A Szmalec… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

What sticks after statistical learning: The persistence of implicit versus explicit memory traces

H Liu, TA Forest, K Duncan, AS Finn - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Statistical learning is a powerful mechanism that extracts even subtle regularities from our
information-dense worlds. Recent theories argue that statistical learning can occur through …

What children with developmental language disorder teach us about cross‐situational word learning

KK McGregor, E Smolak, M Jones, J Oleson… - Cognitive …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) served as a test case for determining
the role of extant vocabulary knowledge, endogenous attention, and phonological working …

Toward a model of statistical learning and reading: Evidence from a meta-analysis

SMK Lee, Y Cui, SX Tong - Review of Educational Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
A compelling demonstration of implicit learning is the human ability to unconsciously detect
and internalize statistical patterns of complex environmental input. This ability, called …

Differential activation of a frontoparietal network explains population-level differences in statistical learning from speech

J Orpella, MF Assaneo, P Ripollés, L Noejovich… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
People of all ages display the ability to detect and learn from patterns in seemingly random
stimuli. Referred to as statistical learning (SL), this process is particularly critical when …

Dentate gyrus integrity is necessary for behavioral pattern separation but not statistical learning

HS Wang, RS Rosenbaum, S Baker… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Pattern separation, the creation of distinct representations of similar inputs, and statistical
learning, the rapid extraction of regularities across multiple inputs, have both been linked to …

Failure to consolidate statistical learning in developmental dyslexia

R Ballan, SJ Durrant, DS Manoach, Y Gabay - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2023 - Springer
Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up patterns in sensory input, serves as one of the
building blocks of language acquisition. Although SL has been studied extensively in …

When less is more: Enhanced statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies after disruption of bilateral DLPFC

GG Ambrus, T Vékony, K Janacsek… - Journal of Memory and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Brain networks related to human learning can interact in cooperative but also competitive
ways to optimize performance. The investigation of learning and memory processes in a …