2009
Statistical learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies among nonlinguistic sounds
Gebhart AL, Newport EL, Aslin RN. Statistical learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies among nonlinguistic sounds. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2009, 16: 486-490. PMID: 19451373, PMCID: PMC2799498, DOI: 10.3758/pbr.16.3.486.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAssociation LearningAttentionHumansMultilingualismPhoneticsPitch PerceptionRecognition, PsychologySpeech PerceptionVerbal LearningConceptsStatistical learning mechanismsNonlinguistic soundsNonadjacent dependenciesPatterned relationshipsPerceptual similarityNonadjacent elementsSimilarity cuesAdjacent syllablesStatistical learningLearning mechanismSyllablesContinuous streamExtensive exposureAdultsParticipantsCuesContinuous sequenceRelationshipPresent studyLearningPrevious work
1994
Developmental Differences in Infant Attention to the Spectral Properties of Infant‐directed Speech
Cooper R, Aslin R. Developmental Differences in Infant Attention to the Spectral Properties of Infant‐directed Speech. Child Development 1994, 65: 1663-1677. PMID: 7859548, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1994.tb00841.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsChild DevelopmentDiscrimination LearningFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMalePitch PerceptionSpeech PerceptionConceptsID speechExaggerated pitch contoursSine-wave analogsPitch contourAdult-directed speechInfant-directed speechInfant attentionAD speechPrepotent stimulusCommunicative signalsPerceptual acuityPreference procedureDevelopmental differencesNatural recordingsProsodic featuresAcoustic featuresFourth experimentSpeechPitch characteristicsOlder infantsThird experimentYoung infantsInteractive experienceMonths of ageFundamental frequency