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Rule Learning (RL) allows us to extract and generalize high-order rules from a sequence of elements. Despite the critical role of RL in the acquisition of linguistic and social abilities, no study has investig...
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Open AccessEarly maturation of sound duration processing in the infant’s brain
The ability to process sound duration is crucial already at a very early age for laying the foundation for the main functions of auditory perception, such as object perception and music and language acquisitio...
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Open AccessDysfunctions in Infants’ Statistical Learning are Related to Parental Autistic Traits
Statistical learning refers to the ability to extract the statistical relations embedded in a sequence, and it plays a crucial role in the development of communicative and social skills that are impacted in th...
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Open AccessInfants learn better from left to right: a directional bias in infants’ sequence learning
A wealth of studies show that human adults map ordered information onto a directional spatial continuum. We asked whether map** ordinal information into a directional space constitutes an early predispositio...
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Operational momentum and size ordering in preverbal infants
Recent evidence has shown that, like adults and children, 9-month-old infants manifest an operational momentum (OM) effect during non-symbolic arithmetic, whereby they overestimate the outcomes to addition pro...
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Paternal Autistic Traits are Predictive of Infants Visual Attention
Since subthreshold autistic social impairments aggregate in family members, and since attentional dysfunctions appear to be one of the earliest cognitive markers of children with autism, we investigated in the...
