We have previously shown that readers use co-occurrence statistics to learn about the
presence and position of affix-like chunks in strings of pseudo-letters (Lelonkiewicz, Ktori & …

Boredom is an aversive mental state that is typically evoked by monotony and drives
individuals to seek novel information. Despite this effect on individual behavior, the …

Decades of work has shown that learners rapidly extract structure from their environment,
later leveraging their knowledge of what is more versus less consistent with prior experience …

Chunking theories argue that children discover their first words by extracting sub-sequences
embedded in their continuous input, but the mechanisms proposed in these accounts are …

In many domains, learners extract recurring units from continuous sequences. For example,
in unknown languages, fluent speech is perceived as a continuous signal. Learners need to …

Statistical learning relies on detecting the frequency of co-occurrences of items and has
been proposed to be crucial for a variety of learning problems, notably to learn and …

Statistical learning is a mechanism for detecting associations among co-occurring elements
in many domains and species. A key controversy is whether it leads to memory for discrete …

According to chunking theories, children discover their first words by extracting sub-
sequences embedded in their continuous input. However, the mechanisms proposed in …

Infants' ability to detect statistical regularities between visual objects has been demonstrated
in previous studies (eg, Kirkham et al., Cognition, 83, 2002, B35). The extent to which infants …

Adult language learners have difficulty segmenting words from continuous speech when the
phonology is unfamiliar. Since speaker variability is known to improve acquisition of novel …