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 …

In spite of the remarkable progress made in the burgeoning field of social neuroscience, the
neural mechanisms that underlie social encounters are only beginning to be studied and …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

Although the power of statistical learning (SL) in explaining a wide range of linguistic
functions is gaining increasing support, relatively little research has focused on this …

The development of reading depends on phonological awareness across all languages so
far studied. Languages vary in the consistency with which phonology is represented in …

Accumulating evidence shows how language context shapes bilingual language use and its
cognitive consequences. However, few studies have considered the impact of language …

From both a practical and a theoretical point of view it is important to understand the
difference between implicit and explicit learning mechanisms and the role they play in …

Previous research suggests that language learners can detect and use the statistical
properties of syllable sequences to discover words in continuous speech (eg Aslin, RN …

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