Statistical learning of language: A meta‐analysis into 25 years of research

ES Isbilen, MH Christiansen - Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical learning is a key concept in our understanding of language acquisition. Ample
work has highlighted its role in numerous linguistic functions—yet statistical learning is not a …

Changes in statistical learning across development

TA Forest, ML Schlichting, KD Duncan… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Preverbal infants discover statistical word patterns at similar rates as adults: Evidence from neural entrainment

D Choi, LJ Batterink, AK Black, KA Paller… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The discovery of words in continuous speech is one of the first challenges faced by infants
during language acquisition. This process is partially facilitated by statistical learning, the …

Neurodevelopment of Attention, Learning, and Memory Systems in Infancy

TA Forest, D Amso - Annual Review of Developmental …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Dentate gyrus integrity is necessary for behavioral pattern separation but not statistical learning

HS Wang, RS Rosenbaum, S Baker… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Pattern separation, the creation of distinct representations of similar inputs, and statistical
learning, the rapid extraction of regularities across multiple inputs, have both been linked to …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical learning in the absence of explicit top-down attention

D Duncan, J Theeuwes - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently it has been shown that statistical learning of regularities presented in a display can
bias attentional selection, such that attentional capture by salient objects is reduced by …

The power of rhythms: how steady-state evoked responses reveal early neurocognitive development

C Kabdebon, A Fló, A De Heering, R Aslin - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive and painless recording of cerebral activity,
particularly well-suited for studying young infants, allowing the inspection of cerebral …

Rhythmically modulating neural entrainment during exposure to regularities influences statistical learning

LJ Batterink, J Mulgrew… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to discover regularities in the environment, such as syllable patterns in speech, is
known as statistical learning. Previous studies have shown that statistical learning is …

Remarks on the analysis of steady-state responses: Spurious artifacts introduced by overlapping epochs

L Benjamin, G Dehaene-Lambertz, A Fló - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Periodic and stable sensory input can result in rhythmic and stable neural responses, a
phenomenon commonly referred to as neural entrainment. Although the use of neural …

Can explicit instruction boost statistical learning? A meta-analytical review.

J Ren, M Wang, CM Conway - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
This meta-analysis investigated whether and to what extent explicit instruction improves
statistical learning (SL). While some previous studies individually demonstrated significant …