TY - JOUR
T1 - Statistical learning research
T2 - A critical review and possible new directions
AU - Frost, Ram
AU - Armstrong, Blair C.
AU - Christiansen, Morten H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of information processing. In the last 2 decades, a large and continuously growing research community has therefore focused on the ability to extract embedded patterns of regularity in time and space. This work has mostly focused on transitional probabilities, in vision, audition, by newborns, children, adults, in normal developing and clinical populations. Here we appraise this research approach and we critically assess what it has achieved, what it has not, and why it is so. We then center on present SL research to examine whether it has adopted novel perspectives. These discussions lead us to outline possible blueprints for a novel research agenda.
AB - Statistical learning (SL) is involved in a wide range of basic and higher-order cognitive functions and is taken to be an important building block of virtually all current theories of information processing. In the last 2 decades, a large and continuously growing research community has therefore focused on the ability to extract embedded patterns of regularity in time and space. This work has mostly focused on transitional probabilities, in vision, audition, by newborns, children, adults, in normal developing and clinical populations. Here we appraise this research approach and we critically assess what it has achieved, what it has not, and why it is so. We then center on present SL research to examine whether it has adopted novel perspectives. These discussions lead us to outline possible blueprints for a novel research agenda.
KW - Distributional properties
KW - Information processing
KW - Language
KW - Memory
KW - Statistical learning
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U2 - 10.1037/bul0000210
DO - 10.1037/bul0000210
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C2 - 31580089
AN - SCOPUS:85073108512
SN - 0033-2909
VL - 145
SP - 1128
EP - 1153
JO - Psychological Bulletin
JF - Psychological Bulletin
IS - 12
ER -