Exploration of auditory statistical learning, socioeconomic status, and language outcomes in Bangladeshi children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.

EF Sullivan, L Pirazzoli, JE Richards… - Developmental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Auditory statistical learning, or the ability to detect statistical regularities in continuously
presented stimuli, is thought to be one element that underlies language acquisition. Prior …

Literacy effects on artificial grammar learning (AGL) with letters and colors: evidence from preschool and primary school children

AP Soares, R Silva, F Faria, MS Santos… - Language and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Literacy affects many aspects of language and cognition, including the shift from a more
holistic mode of processing to a more analytical part-based mode of processing. Here we …

Explicit instructions do not enhance auditory statistical learning in children with developmental language disorder: Evidence from event-related potentials

AP Soares, FJ Gutiérrez-Domínguez… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A current issue in psycholinguistic research is whether the language difficulties exhibited by
children with developmental language disorder [DLD, previously labeled specific language …

Early caregiver predictability shapes neural indices of statistical learning later in infancy

TA Forest, SA McCormick, L Davel… - Developmental …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Caregivers play an outsized role in shaping early life experiences and development, but we
often lack mechanistic insight into how exactly caregiver behavior scaffolds the …

Perceptual Expectations Are Reflected by Early Alpha Power Reduction

S Sáringer, Á Fehér, G Sáry… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
The predictability of a stimulus can be characterized by its transitional probability. Perceptual
expectations derived from the transitional probability of the stimulus were found to modulate …

Learning words while listening to syllables: electrophysiological correlates of statistical learning in children and adults

AP Soares, FJ Gutiérrez-Domínguez… - Frontiers in human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
From an early age, exposure to a spoken language has allowed us to implicitly capture the
structure underlying the succession of speech sounds in that language and to segment it …

As trials go by: Effects of 2-AFC item repetition on statistical learning performance.

AP Soares, T França… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
L'une des tâches les plus populaires utilisées pour tester l'apprentissage statistique (SL)
consiste à demander aux participants d'identifier lequel de deux stimuli, un triplet présenté …

Statistical Learning

L Bogaerts, N Siegelman, R Frost - Oxford Research Encyclopedia …, 2023 - biblio.ugent.be
Statistical learning refers to the ability to pick up on the statistical regularities in our sensory
environment, typically without intention or conscious awareness. Since the seminal …

Extracting word-like units when two concurrent regularities collide: Electrophysiological evidence

AP Soares, AMM Lages, HM Oliveira - 2021 - repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt
Statistical learning (SL) is a fundamental skill assumed to play a central role in the
acquisition of the rule-governed aspects of language. Despite evidence that SL is present …

[PDF][PDF] Is Statistical Learning Affected by the Composition of the Speech Streams? Behavioral and Neural Evidence

AP Soares, D Paiva, A Lema, DR Pereira… - 2025 - preprints.org
Statistical learning (SL), the ability to extract patterns from the environment, has been
assumed to play a central role in whole cognition, particularly in language acquisition …