While the visual environment contains massive amounts of information, we should not and
cannot pay attention to all events. Instead, we need to direct attention to those events that …

Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

Considerable research indicates that learners are sensitive to probabilistic structure in
laboratory studies of artificial language learning. However, the artificial and simplified nature …

Implicit learning and statistical learning are two contemporary approaches to the long‐
standing question in psychology and cognitive science of how organisms pick up on …

The domain-general learning mechanisms elicited in incidental learning situations are of
potential interest in many research fields, including language acquisition, object knowledge …

Statistical learning allows learners to detect regularities in the environment and appears to
emerge automatically as a consequence of experience. Statistical learning paradigms bear …

Prior studies have suggested, but not fully established, that language ability is important for
regulating attention and behavior. Language ability may have implications for understanding …

How do infants learn so rapidly and with little apparent effort? In 1996, Saffran, Aslin, and
Newport reported that 8‐month‐old human infants could learn the underlying temporal …

There is little empirical evidence showing a direct link between a capacity for statistical
learning (SL) and proficiency with natural language. Moreover, discussion of the role of SL …