Sleeping neonates track transitional probabilities in speech but only retain the first syllable of words

A Fló, L Benjamin, M Palu, G Dehaene-Lambertz - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Extracting statistical regularities from the environment is a primary learning mechanism that
might support language acquisition. While it has been shown that infants are sensitive to …

Robust effects of working memory demand during naturalistic language comprehension in language-selective cortex

C Shain, IA Blank, E Fedorenko, E Gibson… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
To understand language, we must infer structured meanings from real-time auditory or visual
signals. Researchers have long focused on word-by-word structure building in working …

Hippocampal maturation drives memory from generalization to specificity

A Keresztes, CT Ngo, U Lindenberger… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2018 - cell.com
During early ontogeny, the rapid and cumulative acquisition of world knowledge contrasts
with slower improvements in the ability to lay down detailed and long-lasting episodic …

Investigating implicit statistical learning mechanisms through contextual cueing

A Goujon, A Didierjean, S Thorpe - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Since its inception, the contextual cueing (CC) paradigm has generated considerable
interest in various fields of cognitive sciences because it constitutes an elegant approach to …

Learning hierarchical sequence representations across human cortex and hippocampus

S Henin, NB Turk-Browne, D Friedman, A Liu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Sensory input arrives in continuous sequences that humans experience as segmented units,
eg, words and events. The brain's ability to discover regularities is called statistical learning …

Linguistic entrenchment: Prior knowledge impacts statistical learning performance

N Siegelman, L Bogaerts, A Elazar, J Arciuli, R Frost - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Statistical Learning (SL) is typically considered to be a domain-general mechanism by which
cognitive systems discover the underlying statistical regularities in the input. Recent findings …

Evidence of hippocampal learning in human infants

CT Ellis, LJ Skalaban, TS Yates, VR Bejjanki… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The hippocampus is essential for human memory. 1 The protracted maturation of memory
capacities from infancy through early childhood 2–4 is thus often attributed to hippocampal …

Impaired statistical learning in developmental dyslexia

Y Gabay, ED Thiessen, LL Holt - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2015 - ASHA
Purpose Developmental dyslexia (DD) is commonly thought to arise from phonological
impairments. However, an emerging perspective is that a more general procedural learning …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The hearing hippocampus

AJ Billig, M Lad, W Sedley, TD Griffiths - Progress in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader
function has been proposed including aspects of perception and relational processing …