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 …

Event segmentation is a fundamental process of human cognition that organizes the
continuous flux of activity into discrete, hierarchical units. The mechanism of event …

For human infants, the first years after birth are a period of intense exploration—getting to
understand their own competencies in interaction with a complex physical and social …

Social interactions provide a crucial context for early learning and cognitive development
during infancy. Action prediction—the ability to anticipate an observed action—facilitates …

Young children develop at a breathtaking rate. Within just a few years, they change from
helpless newborns into schoolchildren with all the abilities and skills needed to start formal …

Infancy is the most dynamic part of human development. During this period, all basic
sensorimotor and cognitive abilities are established. In this chapter, we will trace some of the …

From sequences of discrete events, humans build mental models of their world. Referred to
as graph learning, the process produces a model encoding the graph of event-to-event …

Sensory prediction and repetition suppression are closely related cognitive mechanisms that
allow the brain to form predictions about the environment, and guide perception in synergy …

In this paper I introduce the theory of predictive processing as a unifying conceptual
framework to account for the human ability to use and innovate tools. I explain the basic …

Little is known about the influence of social context on children's event memory. Across four
studies, we examined whether learning that could occur in the absence of a person was …