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 …

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

Implicit skill learning underlies obtaining not only motor, but also cognitive and social skills
through the life of an individual. Yet, the ontogenetic changes in humans' implicit learning …

Fundamental learning abilities related to the implicit encoding of sequential structure have
been postulated to underlie language acquisition and processing. However, there is very …

Statistical learning–implicit learning of statistical regularities within sensory input–is a way of
acquiring structure within continuous sensory environments. Statistics computation, initially …

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 …

In laboratory experiments, infants are sensitive to patterns of visual features that co-occur
(eg, Fiser & Aslin, 2002). Once infants learn the statistical regularities, however, what do they …

Central tendency, the tendency of judgements of quantities (lengths, durations etc.) to
gravitate towards their mean, is one of the most robust perceptual effects. A Bayesian …

From early in life, infants watch other people's actions. How do young infants come to make
sense of actions they observe? Here, we review empirical findings on the development of …

Groundbreaking insights into the origins of the human mind have been garnered through the
study of eye movements in preverbal subjects who are unable to explain their thought …