The human infant brain is the only known machine able to master a natural language and
develop explicit, symbolic, and communicable systems of knowledge that deliver rich …

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 and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Humans are endowed with an exceptional ability for detecting faces, a competence that, in
adults, is supported by a set of face-specific cortical patches. Human newborns, already …

The extraction of patterns in the environment plays a critical role in many types of human
learning, from motor skills to language acquisition. This process is known as statistical …

The discovery of words in continuous speech is one of the first challenges faced by infants
during language acquisition. This process is partially facilitated by statistical learning, the …

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 …

To understand speech, listeners have to combine the words they hear into phrases and
sentences. Recent magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) …

During language processing, humans form complex embedded representations from
sequential inputs. Here, we ask whether a “geometrical language” with recursive embedding …

The development of language functions is of great interest to neuroscientists, as these
functions are among the fundamental capacities of human cognition. For many years …