It has long been assumed that social animals, such as humans, are born with a brain system
that has evolved to support social affiliation. However, the evidence does not necessarily …

Perception involves making sense of a dynamic, multimodal environment. In the absence of
mechanisms capable of exploiting the statistical patterns in the natural world, infants would …

In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches—the theory of constructed
emotion and rational constructivism—to introduce several novel hypotheses for …

Common sense suggests that emotions are physical types that have little to do with the
words we use to label them. Yet recent psychological constructionist accounts reveal that …

Attachment theory has been generating creative and impactful research for almost half a
century. In this article we focus on the documented antecedents and consequences of …

Infants, children and adults are capable of extracting recurring patterns from their
environment through statistical learning (SL), an implicit learning mechanism that is …

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

The central argument presented in this paper is that statistical learning (SL) is an ability
comprised of multiple components that operate largely implicitly. Components relating to the …

Statistical learning enables learners to extract the environmental regularities necessary to
piece together the structure of their worlds. The capacity for statistical learning and its …

Understanding how we come to make sense of our environments requires understanding
both how we take in new information and how we flexibly process and store that information …