A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating
and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program …

Explaining how every typically developing child acquires language is one of the grand
challenges of cognitive neuroscience. Historically, language learning provoked classic …

There is increasing evidence that humans and other nonhuman mammals are sensitive to
the statistical structure of auditory input. Indeed, neural sensitivity to statistical regularities …

Auditory neurophysiology has demonstrated how basic acoustic features are mapped in the
brain, but it is still not clear how multiple sound components are integrated over time and …

There are obvious differences between recognizing faces and recognizing spoken words or
phonemes that might suggest development of each capability requires different skills …

Human infants are able to detect changes in grammatical rules in a speech sound stream.
Here, we tested whether rats have a comparable ability by using an electrophysiological …

Il risultato di un processo di sviluppo, ovvero l'emergere di un individuo adulto, con le sue
caratteristiche e capacità specifiche, dipende da una complessa interazione fra la …

GENERATIVE MUSICAL GRAMMAR – A MINIMALIST APPROACH Page 1 GENERATIVE
MUSICAL GRAMMAR – A MINIMALIST APPROACH SOMANGSHU MUKHERJI A …

Language presents an unparalleled problem for any account of human learning. As adults
we have little insight into, or memory of, the learning task we faced during infancy and early …

In the first part of this thesis, we ask whether 4-month-old infants can represent objects and
movements after a short exposure in such a way that they recognize either a repeated object …