How does the brain learn environmental structure? Ten core principles for understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms of statistical learning

CM Conway - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite a growing body of research devoted to the study of how humans encode
environmental patterns, there is still no clear consensus about the nature of the …

The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MT Ullman, GM Clark, MY Pullman, JT Lovelett… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder with
adverse impacts that continue into adulthood. However, its neural bases remain unclear …

Foreign language anxiety and foreign language performance: A meta‐analysis

X Zhang - The modern language journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This meta‐analysis investigated the relationship between foreign language (FL) anxiety and
FL performance. Fifty‐five independent samples with more than 10,000 participants were …

Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function

V DeLuca, J Rothman, E Bialystok… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
Learning and using an additional language is shown to have an impact on the structure and
function of the brain, including in regions involved in cognitive control and the connections …

[KÖNYV][B] Fundamentals of cognition

MW Eysenck, M Brysbaert - 2018 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Is it possible to learn something without being aware of it? How does emotion influence the
way we think? How can we improve our memory? Fundamentals of Cognition, third edition …

Subcortical cognition: the fruit below the rind

K Janacsek, TM Evans, M Kiss, L Shah… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Cognitive neuroscience has highlighted the cerebral cortex while often overlooking
subcortical structures. This cortical proclivity is found in basic and translational research on …

[KÖNYV][B] Creating language: Integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing

MH Christiansen, N Chater - 2018 - books.google.com
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 …

Neuroplasticity as a function of second language learning: Anatomical changes in the human brain

P Li, J Legault, KA Litcofsky - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
The brain has an extraordinary ability to functionally and physically change or reconfigure its
structure in response to environmental stimulus, cognitive demand, or behavioral …

Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account

CL Caldwell-Harris, B MacWhinney - Brain and language, 2023 - Elsevier
In 2005, Science magazine designated the problem of accounting for difficulties in L2
(second language) learning as one of the 125 outstanding challenges facing scientific …

[KÖNYV][B] Explicit learning in the L2 classroom: A student-centered approach

RP Leow - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Explicit Learning in the L2 Classroom offers a unique five-prong (theoretical, empirical,
methodological, pedagogical, and model building) approach to the issue of explicit learning …