Remembering the sequence of events is critical for deriving meaning from our experiences
and guiding behavior. Prior investigations into the function of the human hippocampus have …

The hippocampus is involved in the learning and representation of temporal statistics, but
little is understood about the kinds of statistics it can uncover. Prior studies have tested …

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

In recent years, statistical learning (SL) research has seen a growing interest in tracking
individual performance in SL tasks, mainly as a predictor of linguistic abilities. We review …

We use behavioral methods, magnetoencephalography, and functional MRI to investigate
how human listeners discover temporal patterns and statistical regularities in complex sound …

Choosing between two items involves deliberation and comparison of the features of each
item and its value. Such decisions take more time when choosing between options of similar …

Recent evidence challenges the widely held view that the hippocampus is specialized for
episodic memory, by demonstrating that it also underpins the integration of information …

Highlights•Infants use statistical learning to acquire environmental structure and
regularities.•Statistical learning operates over multiple modalities and levels of …

Both implicit learning and statistical learning focus on the ability of learners to pick up on
patterns in the environment. It has been suggested that these two lines of research may be …

Despite the importance of learning and remembering across the lifespan, little is known
about how the episodic memory system develops to support the extraction of associative …