This article reviews the current knowledge state on pragmatic and structural language
abilities in autism and their potential relation to extralinguistic abilities and autistic traits. The …

Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive
functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of …

Statistical learning (SL) is typically considered to be a domain-general mechanism by which
cognitive systems discover the underlying distributional properties of the input. However …

The human brain requires a wide variety of experiences and environmental inputs in order
to develop normally. Children who are neglected by caregivers or raised in institutional …

Although the power of statistical learning (SL) in explaining a wide range of linguistic
functions is gaining increasing support, relatively little research has focused on this …

Most research in statistical learning (SL) has focused on the mean success rates of
participants in detecting statistical contingencies at a group level. In recent years, however …

In recent years, statistical learning (SL) research has seen a growing interest in tracking
individual performance in SL tasks, mainly as a predictor of linguistic abilities. We review …

Variability in children's language acquisition is likely due to a number of cognitive and social
variables. The current study investigated whether individual differences in statistical learning …

This article reports on an individual differences study that investigated the role of implicit
statistical learning in the acquisition of syntax in children. One hundred children ages 4 …

Although statistical learning and language have been assumed to be intertwined, this
theoretical presupposition has rarely been tested empirically. The present study investigates …