Towards a theory of individual differences in statistical learning

• Published in: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences Vol. 372; no. 1711; p. 20160059
• Main Authors: Siegelman, Noam, Bogaerts, Louisa, Christiansen, Morten H., Frost, Ram
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England The Royal Society 05.01.2017; The Royal Society Publishing
• Subjects: Cognitive ability; Humans; Individual Differences; Individuality; Language; Learning; Online Measures; Opinion Piece; Predicting Linguistic Abilities; Statistical Learning; Statistics; Tracking; predicting linguistic abilities; statistical learning; online measures; individual differences

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 studies from this line of research and outline three presuppositions underlying the experimental approach they empl...