An evolutionary account of intermodality differences in statistical learning

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1486; no. 1; pp. 76 - 89
• Main Authors: Ordin, Mikhail, Polyanskaya, Leona, Samuel, Arthur G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.02.2021
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Auditory discrimination learning; Biological Evolution; Cognitive ability; Constituents; Domains; evolutionary adaptation of cognitive mechanisms; Female; Humans; Language; Language Development; Learning; Linguistics; Male; Segmentation; segmentation of the sensory input; Sensory integration; Speech; Speech - physiology; Speech Perception - physiology; Speech processing; statistical learning; Statistics; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult; segmentation of the sensory input; statistical learning; evolutionary adaptation of cognitive mechanisms

The cognitive mechanisms underlying statistical learning are engaged for the purposes of speech processing and language acquisition. However, these mechanisms are shared by a wide variety of species that do not possess the language faculty. Moreover, statistical learning operates across domains, inc...