Specificity of representations in infants’ visual statistical learning

Antovich, Dylan; Gluck, Stephanie Chen-Wu; Goldman, Elizabeth J.; Estes, Katharine Graf

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104772

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“…Thus, limited talker variability may only be helpful in challenging situations when it perfectly corresponds to changes in structure. Under these circumstances, previous studies have found it can be used as a learning support, perhaps drawing attention to the talkerspecific change (e.g., Antovich, Gluck, Goldman, & Graf Estes, 2020;Graf Estes & Lew-Williams, 2015;Weiss et al, 2009;Zinszer & Weiss, 2012).…”

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Desirable Difficulties in Language Learning? How Talker Variability Impacts Artificial Grammar Learning

Bulgarelli

Weiss

2021

Language Learning

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Contending with talker variability has been found to lead to processing costs but also benefits by focusing learners on invariant properties of the signal. These discrepant findings may indicate that talker variability acts as a desirable difficulty. That is, talker variability may lead to initial costs followed by long term benefits for retention and generalization. Adult participants learned an artificial grammar affording learning of multiple components by 1-, 2-or 8-talkers, tested at 3 time points. The 8-talker condition did not impact learning. The 2-talker condition negatively impacted some aspects of learning, but only under more difficult learning conditions. Across both experiments, generalization of the grammatical dependency was difficult. Taken together, we discovered that high and limited talker variability differentially impact artificial grammar learning. However, talker variability does not act as a desirable difficulty in the current paradigm, as the few evidenced costs were not related to long-term benefits.

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“…Under these circumstances, previous studies have found it can be used as a learning support, perhaps drawing attention to the talker-specific change (e.g. Antovich et al, 2020;Graf Estes & Lew-Williams 2015;Weiss et al, 2009;Zinszer & Weiss, 2012).…”

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Desirable Difficulties in Language Learning? How Talker Variability Impacts Artificial Grammar Learning

Bulgarelli

Weiss

2021

Language Learning

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“…Many studies have replicated these findings since then, using different types of visual stimuli (Emberson et al, 2019), in younger (Bulf et al, 2011) and older infants (Antovich et al, 2020). Critically, these findings have also been replicated using test designs that allowed concluding more straightforwardly that infants were sensitive to the statistical relations between elements (i.e., TPs and/or co‐occurrence frequency), rather than merely to local redundancies or frequency of individual elements (Marcovitch & Lewkowicz, 2009; Slone & Johnson, 2015).…”

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