As we age we become increasingly susceptible to memory distortions and inaccuracies.
Over the past decade numerous neuroimaging studies have attempted to illuminate the …

Cognitive control, the ability to limit attention to goal-relevant information, aids performance
on a wide range of laboratory tasks. However, there are many day-to-day functions which …

Knowledge about regularities in the environment can be used to facilitate perception,
memory, and language acquisition. Given this usefulness, we hypothesized that statistically …

The sensory input that we experience is highly patterned, and we are experts at detecting
these regularities. Although the extraction of such regularities, or statistical learning (SL), is …

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 …

We develop a novel, computationally explicit, theory of age-related memory change within
the framework of the context maintenance and retrieval (CMR2) model of memory search …

The prefrontal cortex exerts top-down influences on several aspects of higher-order
cognition by functioning as a filtering mechanism that biases bottom-up sensory information …

Statistical learning refers to the ability to extract regularities from the environment over time.
Sensitivity to environmental statistics is a pervasive property of the brain that operates over …

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 control allows one to focus one's attention efficiently on relevant information while
filtering out irrelevant information. This ability provides a means of rapid and effective …