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The Role Of Top-Down Attention In Statistical Learning Of Speech, Stacey Reyes
The Role Of Top-Down Attention In Statistical Learning Of Speech, Stacey Reyes
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Statistical learning (SL) refers to the ability to extract regularities in the environment and has been well-documented to play a key role in speech segmentation and language acquisition. Whether SL is automatic or requires top-down attention is an unresolved question, with conflicting results in the literature. The current proposal tests whether SL can occur outside the focus of attention. Participants either focused towards, or diverted their attention away from an auditory speech stream made of repeating nonsense trisyllabic words. Divided-attention participants either performed a concurrent visual task or a language-related task during exposure to the nonsense speech stream, while control …
Implicit Statistical Learning Facilitates Second Language Acquisition In Adult Learners, Elise Alexander, Laura Batterink, Steven Van Hedger
Implicit Statistical Learning Facilitates Second Language Acquisition In Adult Learners, Elise Alexander, Laura Batterink, Steven Van Hedger
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The Role Of Neural Entrainment In Statistical Learning, Jordan-Jerrica Mulgrew
The Role Of Neural Entrainment In Statistical Learning, Jordan-Jerrica Mulgrew
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Statistical learning (SL) refers to our ability to extract patterns from the environment. Research has long acknowledged the importance of SL in language; however, the neural mechanisms underlying SL remain largely unknown. One potential mechanism is neural entrainment, which refers to the tendency of endogenous neural oscillations to align with an ongoing rhythmic stimulus. In the context of SL, neural entrainment may align neural excitability to the ongoing structure of the speech stream, increasing sensitivity to underlying patterns and supporting the learning of word boundaries. This thesis tested the hypothesis that neural entrainment plays a causal role in SL by …
Prosody: An Important Cue To Word Learning, Monica Dasilva
Prosody: An Important Cue To Word Learning, Monica Dasilva
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Infants rely on cues from their environment during language acquisition. Prosodic features of words are one such cue and involve changes in stress and rhythmic patterns within speech. Studies have examined prosody’s influence on word segmentation and have found it to be a useful cue for detecting word boundaries (Johnson & Seidl, 2009). What is less understood is how prosody helps infants form associations between novel labels and their referents during word learning. The present thesis investigated the influence of prosodic cues on word learning. The looking times were recorded of 13 infants (19-25 months) exposed to object-label pairings that …