Learning Words While Listening to Syllables: Electrophysiological Correlates of Statistical Learning in Children and Adults

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 witho...

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Main Authors: Ana Paula Soares, Francisco-Javier Gutiérrez-Domínguez, Alexandrina Lages, Helena M. Oliveira, Margarida Vasconcelos, Luis Jiménez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.805723/full