Infant statistical learning

JR Saffran, NZ Kirkham - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Constraints on statistical learning across species

C Santolin, JR Saffran - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Both human and nonhuman organisms are sensitive to statistical regularities in sensory
inputs that support functions including communication, visual processing, and sequence …

The best time to acquire new skills: Age‐related differences in implicit sequence learning across the human lifespan

K Janacsek, J Fiser, D Nemeth - Developmental science, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Implicit statistical learning in language processing: Word predictability is the key

CM Conway, A Bauernschmidt, SS Huang, DB Pisoni - Cognition, 2010 - Elsevier
Fundamental learning abilities related to the implicit encoding of sequential structure have
been postulated to underlie language acquisition and processing. However, there is very …

Visual statistical learning in the newborn infant

H Bulf, SP Johnson, E Valenza - Cognition, 2011 - Elsevier
Statistical learning–implicit learning of statistical regularities within sensory input–is a way of
acquiring structure within continuous sensory environments. Statistics computation, initially …

The multi-component nature of statistical learning

J Arciuli - … Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Infants learn about objects from statistics and people.

R Wu, A Gopnik, DC Richardson… - Developmental …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
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 effects in time interval reproduction in autism

T Karaminis, GM Cicchini, L Neil, G Cappagli… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

What are you doing? How active and observational experience shape infants' action understanding

S Hunnius, H Bekkering - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

OWLET: An automated, open-source method for infant gaze tracking using smartphone and webcam recordings

DM Werchan, ME Thomason, NH Brito - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
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 …