Perception involves making sense of a dynamic, multimodal environment. In the absence of
mechanisms capable of exploiting the statistical patterns in the natural world, infants would …

A sequence of images, sounds, or words can be stored at several levels of detail, from
specific items and their timing to abstract structure. We propose a taxonomy of five distinct …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

Human learners, including infants, are highly sensitive to structure in their environment.
Statistical learning refers to the process of extracting this structure. A major question in …

NOW PUBLISHED BY PLURAL! This classic text now in its tenth edition and now available
from Plural Publishing, The Development of Language continues its focus on language …

There is little empirical evidence showing a direct link between a capacity for statistical
learning (SL) and proficiency with natural language. Moreover, discussion of the role of SL …

Theories of language acquisition have highlighted the importance of adult speakers as
active participants in children's language learning. However, in many communities children …

Sixty years ago, Karl Lashley suggested that complex action sequences, from simple motor
acts to language and music, are a fundamental but neglected aspect of neural function …

The ability to extract deep structures from auditory sequences is a fundamental prerequisite
of language acquisition. Using fMRI in untrained macaques and humans, we investigated …