This review of rat sensory perception spans eight decades of work conducted across diverse
research fields. It covers rat vision, audition, olfaction, gustation, and somatosensation, and …

Although for many years a sharp distinction has been made in language research between
rules and words—with primary interest on rules—this distinction is now blurred in many …

The focus of this chapter is on how infants perceive, process, and learn from their auditory
environments. We focus on mechanism of hearing, speech perception, and early language …

Infants begin life ready to learn any of the world's languages, but they quickly become
speech-perception experts in their native language. Although this phenomenon has been …

A controversial issue in neurolinguistics is whether basic neural auditory representations
found in many animals can account for human perception of speech. This question was …

We investigated the neural processes involved in on-line statistical learning and word
segmentation. Auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants …

The extent to which human speech perception evolved by taking advantage of
predispositions and pre-existing features of vertebrate auditory and cognitive systems …

Perception studies have shown similarities between humans and other animals in a wide
array of language-related processes. However, the components of language that make it …

Statistical learning (SL) is postulated to play an important role in the process of language
acquisition as well as in other cognitive functions. It was found to enable learning of various …

Word segmentation, that is, discovering the boundaries between words that are embedded
in a continuous speech stream, is an important faculty for language learners; humans solve …