Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

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 …

Cognitive development is marked by age-related improvements across a number of
domains, as young children perform worse than their older counterparts on most tasks …

Statistical learning is a powerful mechanism that extracts even subtle regularities from our
information-dense worlds. Recent theories argue that statistical learning can occur through …

Across development, interactions between value-based learning and memory processes
promote the formation of mental models that enable flexible goal pursuit. Value cues in the …

Declarative memory and procedural memory are known to be two fundamentally different
kinds of memory that are dissociable in their psychological characteristics and measurement …

There is a fundamental psychological and neuropsychological distinction between explicit
and implicit memory, and it has been proposed that whereas there are stable trait individual …

Throughout our lives, we face the important task of distinguishing rewarding actions from
those that are best avoided. Importantly, there are multiple means by which we acquire this …

While prior research has shown a strong relationship between socioeconomic status (SES)
and working memory performance, the relation between SES and procedural (implicit) …

Statistical structure abounds in language. Human infants show a striking capacity for using
statistical learning (SL) to extract regularities in their linguistic environments, a process …