Infants learn language with remarkable speed, but how they do it remains a mystery. New
data show that infants use computational strategies to detect the statistical and prosodic …

The capacity to generate a limitless range of meaningful expressions from a finite set of
elements differentiates human language from other animal communication systems. Rule …

In The Foundations of Mind, Jean Mandler presents a new theory of cognitive development
in infancy, focusing on the processes through which perceptual information is transformed …

In earlier work we have shown that adults, young children, and infants are capable of
computing transitional probabilities among adjacent syllables in rapidly presented streams …

Recent demonstrations of statistical learning in infants have reinvigorated the innateness
versus learning debate in language acquisition. This article addresses these issues from …

In earlier work we have shown that adults, infants, and cotton-top tamarin monkeys are
capable of computing the probability with which syllables occur in particular orders in rapidly …

Statistical learning has been widely proposed as a mechanism by which observers learn to
decompose complex sensory scenes. To determine how robust statistical learning is, we …

Language acquisition represents one of the great learning achievements in human cognitive
development. Perhaps, this process takes place in a relatively automatic manner in which …

What are the brain and cognitive systems that allow humans to play baseball, compute
square roots, cook soufflés, or navigate the Tokyo subways? It may seem that studies of …

Hebbian learning is a biologically plausible and ecologically valid learning mechanism. In
Hebbian learning,'units that fire together, wire together'. Such learning may occur at the …