Jenny Saffran studied statistical learning in infancy. Brief exposure to an artificial speech stream was followed by preference tests for sequences with different statistical histories. The design investigates sensitivity to regularities without requiring an infant to explain a rule or already know the words being presented. [ref]
Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants by Jenny R. Saffran and others. 1996, artificial-speech exposure and head-turn tests
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