From an early age, exposure to a spoken language has allowed us to implicitly capture the structu... more From an early age, exposure to a spoken language has allowed us to implicitly capture the structure underlying the succession of speech sounds in that language and to segment it into meaningful units (words). Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up patterns in the sensory environment without intention or reinforcement, is thus assumed to play a central role in the acquisition of the rule-governed aspects of language, including the discovery of word boundaries in the continuous acoustic stream. Although extensive evidence has been gathered from artificial languages experiments showing that children and adults are able to track the regularities embedded in the auditory input, as the probability of one syllable to follow another syllable in the speech stream, the developmental trajectory of this ability remains controversial. In this work, we have collected Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) while 5-year-old children and young adults (university students) were exposed to a speec...
Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up regularities in the sensory environment, is a f... more Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up regularities in the sensory environment, is a fundamental skill that allows us to structure the world in a regular and predictable way. Although extensive evidence has been gathered from children and adults, the changes that SL might undergo throughout development remain contentious, particularly in the auditory modality (aSL) with linguistic materials. Here, we collected Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) while 5 years-old children and young adults (university students) were exposed to a complex speech stream in which eight three-syllable nonsense words - four with high (1.0) and four with low (.50) transitional probabilities were embedded to further examine how aSL works under less predictable conditions and to enhance age-related differences in the neural correlates of aSL. Moreover, to ascertain how previous knowledge of the to-be-learned regularities might also affect the results, participants performed the aSL task, firstly, under...
From an early age, exposure to a spoken language has allowed us to implicitly capture the structu... more From an early age, exposure to a spoken language has allowed us to implicitly capture the structure underlying the succession of speech sounds in that language and to segment it into meaningful units (words). Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up patterns in the sensory environment without intention or reinforcement, is thus assumed to play a central role in the acquisition of the rule-governed aspects of language, including the discovery of word boundaries in the continuous acoustic stream. Although extensive evidence has been gathered from artificial languages experiments showing that children and adults are able to track the regularities embedded in the auditory input, as the probability of one syllable to follow another syllable in the speech stream, the developmental trajectory of this ability remains controversial. In this work, we have collected Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) while 5-year-old children and young adults (university students) were exposed to a speec...
Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up regularities in the sensory environment, is a f... more Statistical learning (SL), the ability to pick up regularities in the sensory environment, is a fundamental skill that allows us to structure the world in a regular and predictable way. Although extensive evidence has been gathered from children and adults, the changes that SL might undergo throughout development remain contentious, particularly in the auditory modality (aSL) with linguistic materials. Here, we collected Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) while 5 years-old children and young adults (university students) were exposed to a complex speech stream in which eight three-syllable nonsense words - four with high (1.0) and four with low (.50) transitional probabilities were embedded to further examine how aSL works under less predictable conditions and to enhance age-related differences in the neural correlates of aSL. Moreover, to ascertain how previous knowledge of the to-be-learned regularities might also affect the results, participants performed the aSL task, firstly, under...
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