Human beings have an amazing capacity to learn new skills and adapt to new
environments. However, several obstacles remain to be overcome in designing paradigms …

Theoretical accounts of grammatical limitations in specific language impairment (SLI) have
been polarized between those that postulate problems with domain-specific grammatical …

Although statistical learning and language have been assumed to be intertwined, this
theoretical presupposition has rarely been tested empirically. The present study investigates …

We investigated the developmental trajectory of nonadjacent dependency learning in an
artificial language. Infants were exposed to 1 of 2 artificial languages with utterances of the …

Sensitivity to prosodic cues might be used to constrain lexical search. Indeed, the prosodic
organization of speech is such that words are invariably aligned with phrasal prosodic …

Recent studies of visual statistical learning (VSL) have demonstrated that statistical
regularities in sequences of visual stimuli can be automatically extracted, even without intent …

Abstract Language learning requires mastering multiple tasks, including segmenting speech
to identify words, and learning the syntactic role of these words within sentences. A key …

Being able to track dependencies between syntactic elements separated by other
constituents is crucial for language acquisition and processing (eg, in subject-noun/verb …

In many cognitive domains, learning is more effective when exemplars are distributed over a
number of sessions than when they are all presented within one session. The present study …

A major question for the study of learning and memory is how to tailor learning experiences
to promote knowledge that generalizes to new situations. In two experiments, we used …