NDLI: Twelve-Month-Old Infants Benefit From Prior Experience in Statistical Learning

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Jill, Lany Gómez, Rebecca L.
Abstract	A decade of research suggests that infants readily detect patterns in their environment, but it is unclear how such learning changes with experience. We tested how prior experience influences sensitivity to statistical regularities in an artificial language. Although 12-month-old infants learn adjacent relationships between word categories, they do not track nonadjacent relationships until 15 months. We asked whether 12-month-old infants could generalize experience with adjacent dependencies to nonadjacent ones. Infants were familiarized to an artificial language either containing or lacking adjacent dependencies between word categories and were subsequently habituated to novel nonadjacent dependencies. Prior experience with adjacent dependencies resulted in enhanced learning of the nonadjacent dependencies. Female infants showed better discrimination than males did, which is consistent with earlier reported sex differences in verbal memory capacity. The findings suggest that prior experience can bootstrap infants’ learning of difficult language structure and that learning mechanisms are powerfully affected by experience.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02233.x
Ending Page	1252
Page Count	6
Starting Page	1247
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09567976
e-ISSN	14679280
Journal	Psychological science
Issue Number	12
Volume Number	19
Language	English
Publisher Date	2008-12-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Psychology(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Psychology

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