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Implicit Statistical Learning across Modalities and its Relationship with Reading in Childhood

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 1.00PM to 2.00pm

Speaker(s): Dr Eplida Pavlidou, Psychology in Education Research Centre

In recent years, implicit statistical learning (ISL), that is our ability to pick up structure from our environment (over time) in an undirected fashion, has emerged as a strong candidate mechanism to explain, among other things, linguistic phenomena. This contemporary theoretical approach to language learning binds reading with a general (rather than language specific) capacity to detect, store and use statistical regularities in the input. I will discuss novel data across different modalities in very young typical readers that shed further light on this proposed relationship. 

Location: D/L006, Derwent College