Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

Both human and nonhuman organisms are sensitive to statistical regularities in sensory
inputs that support functions including communication, visual processing, and sequence …

A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of
language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition …

Highlights•Sequence processing probes cognitive abilities that are relevant to language.•In
humans these abilities are subject to stimulus and modality-specific constraints.• …

Statistical learning (SL) is a powerful learning mechanism that supports word segmentation
and language acquisition in infants and young adults. However, little is known about how …

Human and non‐human primates share the ability to extract adjacent dependencies and,
under certain conditions, non‐adjacent dependencies (ie, predictive relationships between …

Responses of auditory cortical neurons encode sound features of incoming acoustic stimuli
and also are shaped by stimulus context and history. Previous studies of mammalian …

Humans and nonhuman primates can learn about the organization of stimuli in the
environment using implicit sequential pattern learning capabilities. However, most previous …

For several decades, ethologists and comparative psychologists have been using a
linguistic terminology to discuss complex communicative abilities in animals, with a …

Simple Summary Our aim is to investigate the recognition of the structure of multi-element
configurations; one mechanism that supports communicative functions in different species …