2014
The Goldilocks Effect in Infant Auditory Attention
Kidd C, Piantadosi ST, Aslin RN. The Goldilocks Effect in Infant Auditory Attention. Child Development 2014, 85: 1795-1804. PMID: 24990627, PMCID: PMC4807134, DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12263.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAuditory attentionAttentional selectionInfant attentionCognitive resourcesVisual attentionCognitive domainsStimulus complexityAuditory stimuliImplicit beliefsAcoustic inputBehavioral methodsTheorized mechanismsHuman infantsPrevious researchCapacity limitsTransitional statisticsGoldilocks effectAttentionStimuliInfantsBeliefsBroad principlesSoundPrevious studiesExpectationsPhonetic Category Learning and Its Influence on Speech Production
Aslin RN. Phonetic Category Learning and Its Influence on Speech Production. Ecological Psychology 2014, 26: 4-15. PMID: 24954995, PMCID: PMC4061984, DOI: 10.1080/10407413.2014.874839.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2008
Perception of speech reflects optimal use of probabilistic speech cues
Clayards M, Tanenhaus MK, Aslin RN, Jacobs RA. Perception of speech reflects optimal use of probabilistic speech cues. Cognition 2008, 108: 804-809. PMID: 18582855, PMCID: PMC2582186, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.04.004.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2003
Phonological neighbourhoods in the developing lexicon
COADY J, ASLIN R. Phonological neighbourhoods in the developing lexicon. Journal Of Child Language 2003, 30: 441-469. PMID: 12846305, PMCID: PMC5524141, DOI: 10.1017/s0305000903005579.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1996
Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues
Saffran J, Newport E, Aslin R. Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues. Journal Of Memory And Language 1996, 35: 606-621. DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1996.0032.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDistributional cuesWord boundariesProsodic cuesWord segmentationTransitional probabilitiesContinuous speech streamFirst taskLanguage learnersLanguage acquisitionArtificial languageLanguage inputSpeech streamOnly cueCuesLanguageLearnersLearning problemWordsRelative strengthSyllablesTaskBoundariesAdultsSoundAcquisition
1979
Identification and discrimination of a new linguistic contrast
Aslin R, Pisoni D, Hennessy B, Perey A. Identification and discrimination of a new linguistic contrast. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1979, 65: s113-s113. DOI: 10.1121/1.2016955.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLinguistic contrastsNew perceptual categoriesPhonetic perceptionPerceptual abilitiesPerceptual categoriesHours of practicePerceptual systemSpeech soundsPerceptual testsLinguistic experienceNeural mechanismsIndividual exertsThree-way contrastTraining procedureTraining techniquesLinguistic environmentDiscrimination functionEnglish subjectsEnvironmental inputsVoicelessPerceptionConsistent labelingAdultsSoundDiscrimination
1977
Perceptual analysis of speech sounds by prelinguistic infants: A first report
Aslin R, Perey A, Hennesy E, Pisoni D. Perceptual analysis of speech sounds by prelinguistic infants: A first report. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1977, 62: s99-s99. DOI: 10.1121/1.2016490.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpeech perception abilitiesSpeech soundsPerception abilityNovel speech soundsHead-turning paradigmEarly environmental experiencesHead-turning responsePerceptual constancyPrelinguistic infantsVisual stimuliDiscrimination trainingPerceptual analysisTraining stimulusEnvironmental experiencesConditioning phaseStimuliTransfer phaseYoung infantsSoundFeature analysisSpeechInfantsAbilityParadigmTraining