Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

By Jenny R. Saffran, Richard N. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport. 1996

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Learning visual groups from co-occurrences in space and time (2015, background): “Subsequent researchers have argued that infants learn about linguistic groups from phoneme co-occurrence (Saffran et al. (1996)), and that humans may also pick up on visual patterns from co-occurrence statistics alone (Fiser & Aslin (2001); Schapiro et al. (2013)).”
Learning from others: children's construction of concepts. (2009, background): “…that infants can track low-level statistical cues with much greater accuracy than had been previously realized (e.g., Gopnik et al. 2004, Saffran et al. 1996, Xu & Tenenbaum 2007), and in part due to new empiricist models that provide a more detailed and realistic appreciation of…”
Non-commercial Research and Educational Use including without Limitation Use in Instruction at Your Institution, Sending It to Specific Colleagues That You Know, and Providing a Copy to Your Institution's Administrator. All Other Uses, Reproduction and Distribution, including without Limitation Comm (2005, unknown): “Since the direct dipole–dipole couplings usually dominate the anisotropic NMR spectra, the number of independent intramolecular pair interactions is important.”
Word Segmentation by 8-Month-Olds: When Speech Cues Count More Than Statistics (2001, methodology): “By 8 months, infants are sensitive to statistical properties of the input ( Saffran, Aslin, et al., 1996 ) and by 9 months, they are presumably integrating these two cues.”
Recognition of Amodal Language Identity Emerges in Infancy (2013, background): “…enables infants to discover nativelanguage segmental, suprasegmental, and lexical features (Johnson & Jusczyk, 2001; Jusczyk et al., 1993, 1994; Saffran et al., 1996; Swingley, 2005; Vihman et al., 2004) and gradually leads to an improvement in multisensory perceptual skills (Lewkowicz, 2002;…”
Putting Education in “Educational” Apps (2015, background): “And while the evidence that infants use statistical reasoning across a variety of domains is clear (Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996; Saffran & Wilson, 2003; L. Smith & Yu, 2008; Xu & Garcia, 2008; Yu & Smith, 2007; Yurovsky, Yu, & Smith, 2012), other research has shown that when social cues are…”
Adaptive computation and machine learning (1998, background): “New discoveries within the related area of natural language acquisition have proven that even eight-month-old infants can detect linguistic regularities and learn simple statistics for the recognition of word boundaries in continuous speech [458].”