web01.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:54:16 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The It's Innate! Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Statistical Learning” https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/tags/statistical%20learning Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:00:00 -0500 Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge! en-us episodic A podcast by two developmental cognitive scientists Deon Benton & Jenny Wang Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge! no Deon Benton & Jenny Wang theitsinnatepodcast@gmail.com Episode 10: That's just a bunch of nonsense you jive turkey https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/10 f3c0a02a-1b06-4873-bb67-af692ccad904 Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:00:00 -0500 Deon Benton & Jenny Wang full Deon Benton & Jenny Wang 1:15:12 no After taking a semester-long hiatus, Candy and Deon are back! In this episode, they talk about classic work that examined how infants segment continous speech. Specifically, they discuss a classic paper published in Science by Jenny Saffran, Richard Aslin, and Elisa Newport (1996) (as well as follow-up papers) that examined infants' ability to segment speech by tracking the internal statistics of that speech. This episode is unique and unlike other episodes in that Candy and Deon pick on their own kind this time—empiricists! Hide your natvisists, hide your empiricists—no one's safe! Links Aslin, R. N., Saffran, J. R., & Newport, E. L. (1998). Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants. Psychological science, 9(4), 321-324. Link to paper (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-9280.00063?casa_token=4oDOkWSZ4GUAAAAA:BvHwWlVau1Ek0GTSl6XUefCF-LDiHVyEm5J_gxme-XBFbprSgjDJRLTj060dVCQQvs7NZGYZc3QS) Pelucchi, B., Hay, J. F., & Saffran, J. R. (2009). Statistical learning in a natural language by 8‐month‐old infants. Child development, 80(3), 674-685. Link to paper (https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01290.x?casa_token=LrtB4I3jai8AAAAA:yzB1WApSw_6Zobof6VwraHtGqZzMU5Sih4loO4S-PtO23tN2bY9wOiJqZNUeBHRHsky7uwC6X1Ta5g) Saffran, J. R., Aslin, R. N., & Newport, E. L. (1996). Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants. Science, 274(5294), 1926-1928. Link to paper (https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.274.5294.1926) Slone, L. K., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). When learning goes beyond statistics: Infants represent visual sequences in terms of chunks. Cognition, 178, 92-102. Link to paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027718301367?casa_token=3gs0n72Fvo4AAAAA:HdKKI3uELF8zVCuLDQ3GKhnTUNsStyiL6A8LkKMYje1yRTTOeVxiUP5PwD80QfVUnntuxDny) statistical learning, mechanism, cognitive development After taking a semester-long hiatus, Candy and Deon are back! In this episode, they talk about classic work that examined how infants segment continous speech. Specifically, they discuss a classic paper published in Science by Jenny Saffran, Richard Aslin, and Elisa Newport (1996) (as well as follow-up papers) that examined infants' ability to segment speech by tracking the internal statistics of that speech. This episode is unique and unlike other episodes in that Candy and Deon pick on their own kind this time—empiricists! Hide your natvisists, hide your empiricists—no one's safe!

Links

Aslin, R. N., Saffran, J. R., & Newport, E. L. (1998). Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants. Psychological science, 9(4), 321-324. Link to paper

Pelucchi, B., Hay, J. F., & Saffran, J. R. (2009). Statistical learning in a natural language by 8‐month‐old infants. Child development, 80(3), 674-685. Link to paper
Saffran, J. R., Aslin, R. N., & Newport, E. L. (1996). Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants. Science, 274(5294), 1926-1928. Link to paper
Slone, L. K., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). When learning goes beyond statistics: Infants represent visual sequences in terms of chunks. Cognition, 178, 92-102. Link to paper

]]> After taking a semester-long hiatus, Candy and Deon are back! In this episode, they talk about classic work that examined how infants segment continous speech. Specifically, they discuss a classic paper published in Science by Jenny Saffran, Richard Aslin, and Elisa Newport (1996) (as well as follow-up papers) that examined infants' ability to segment speech by tracking the internal statistics of that speech. This episode is unique and unlike other episodes in that Candy and Deon pick on their own kind this time—empiricists! Hide your natvisists, hide your empiricists—no one's safe!

Links

Aslin, R. N., Saffran, J. R., & Newport, E. L. (1998). Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants. Psychological science, 9(4), 321-324. Link to paper

Pelucchi, B., Hay, J. F., & Saffran, J. R. (2009). Statistical learning in a natural language by 8‐month‐old infants. Child development, 80(3), 674-685. Link to paper
Saffran, J. R., Aslin, R. N., & Newport, E. L. (1996). Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants. Science, 274(5294), 1926-1928. Link to paper
Slone, L. K., & Johnson, S. P. (2018). When learning goes beyond statistics: Infants represent visual sequences in terms of chunks. Cognition, 178, 92-102. Link to paper

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