Changes in statistical learning across development

TA Forest, ML Schlichting, KD Duncan… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Statistical learning enables learners to extract the environmental regularities necessary to
piece together the structure of their worlds. The capacity for statistical learning and its …

Neurodevelopment of Attention, Learning, and Memory Systems in Infancy

TA Forest, D Amso - Annual Review of Developmental …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Understanding how we come to make sense of our environments requires understanding
both how we take in new information and how we flexibly process and store that information …

What sticks after statistical learning: The persistence of implicit versus explicit memory traces

H Liu, TA Forest, K Duncan, AS Finn - Cognition, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Statistical learning is a powerful mechanism that extracts even subtle regularities from our
information-dense worlds. Recent theories argue that statistical learning can occur through …

Dentate gyrus integrity is necessary for behavioral pattern separation but not statistical learning

HS Wang, RS Rosenbaum, S Baker… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023‏ - direct.mit.edu
Pattern separation, the creation of distinct representations of similar inputs, and statistical
learning, the rapid extraction of regularities across multiple inputs, have both been linked to …

Interactive development of adaptive learning and memory

CA Hartley, K Nussenbaum… - Annual Review of …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Across development, interactions between value-based learning and memory processes
promote the formation of mental models that enable flexible goal pursuit. Value cues in the …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring foundational cognitive skills in Young Lives using RACER

JR Behrman, K Briones, S Cueto… - … Lives Technical Note, 2022‏ - younglives.org.uk
Cognitive skills are a key dimension for child development and for the promotion of learning
opportunities, yet substantial challenges remain to measure cognitive skills in large …

Contingency of semantic generalization on episodic specificity varies across development

CT Ngo, SL Benear, H Popal, IR Olson, NS Newcombe - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
Semantic memory—general knowledge of ideas and concepts—includes generalization
processes that support inference. Episodic memory, on the other hand, preserves the …

General precedes specific in memory representations for structured experience.

TA Forest, AS Finn, ML Schlichting - Journal of Experimental …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Decades of work has shown that learners rapidly extract structure from their environment,
later leveraging their knowledge of what is more versus less consistent with prior experience …

Children automatically abstract categorical regularities during statistical learning

Y Jung, DB Walther, AS Finn - Developmental Science, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Statistical learning allows us to discover myriad structures in our environment, which is
saturated with information at many different levels—from items to categories. How do …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating developmental neuroscience with community-engaged approaches to address mental health outcomes for housing-insecure youth: Implications …

JC Foster, HR Hodges, A Beloborodova… - Developmental …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
One in three children in the United States is exposed to insecure housing conditions,
including unaffordable, inconsistent, and unsafe housing. These exposures have …