The Keys to the Future? An Examination of Statistical Versus Discriminative Accounts of Serial Pattern Learning

F Tomaschek, M Ramscar, JS Nixon - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sequence learning is fundamental to a wide range of cognitive functions. Explaining how
sequences—and the relations between the elements they comprise—are learned is a …

One Cue's Loss Is Another Cue's Gain—Learning Morphophonology Through Unlearning

E Mujezinović, V Kapatsinski… - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A word often expresses many different morphological functions. Which part of a word
contributes to which part of the overall meaning is not always clear, which raises the …

Learning and Adaptation of Communication Systems in Biological Life Forms

JS Nixon, F Tomaschek - Xenolinguistics, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Learning processes in Earth's animal species have been studied in depth for more than a
century, from which have emerged mathematical, theoretical and computational error-driven …

[PDF][PDF] ERROR-DRIVEN LEARNING OF THE CONTINUOUS ACOUSTIC SPEECH SIGNAL

JS Nixon, F Tomaschek - ling.cuhk.edu.hk
Infants begin honing perception to the surrounding language in the first few months of life. It
has been argued that perceptual learning of native speech sounds begins too early to result …