Trial-to-trial variability in the execution of movements and motor skills is ubiquitous and
widely considered to be the unwanted consequence of a noisy nervous system. However …

Infants learn language with remarkable speed, but how they do it remains a mystery. New
data show that infants use computational strategies to detect the statistical and prosodic …

Individual differences in motor learning ability are widely acknowledged, yet little is known
about the factors that underlie them. Here we explore whether movement-to-movement …

Infants acquire language with remarkable speed, although little is known about the
mechanisms that underlie the acquisition process. Studies of the phonetic units of language …

I advance the hypothesis that the earliest phases of language acquisition–the
developmental transition from an initial universal state of language processing to one that is …

Vocal imitation in human infants and in some orders of birds relies on auditory-guided motor
learning during a sensitive period of development. It proceeds from'babbling'(in humans) …

This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of
Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of …

Studies of the biology of music (as of language) are highly interdisciplinary and demand the
integration of diverse strands of evidence. In this paper, I present a comparative perspective …

Learning motor skills evolves from the effortful selection of single movement elements to
their combined fast and accurate production. We review recent trends in the study of skill …

Sensorimotor coordination emerges early in development. The maturation period is
characterized by the establishment of somatotopic cortical maps,, the emergence of long …