I'm so excited this is out!! We wrote a review about how the nature of statistical learning may change with development. Feeling very lucky to have had the dream team of mentors to think (and write) about these issues with ⭐️ @amysuefinn @megschlichting @duncanlabUofT.

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And, this was only true for entropy in the same modality as the learning task, maybe suggesting variability in sensory input early in life helps explain why SL performance doesn't always correlate across modalities, or why we see different dev. trajectories of auditory/visual SL.

This helps us understand why past research shows a link between caregiver predictability and cognitive outcomes across species (hot topic @FluxSociety this week!): nuanced variation in early predictable experiences shapes the development of core learning processes early in life.

We measured the entropy in caregivers' sensory behavior during dyadic interactions with their 4-month-olds, and the babies with more predictable caregivers showed more neural sensitivity to novel predictable information during an auditory statistical learning task 6 mos later.

Early Caregiver Predictability Shapes Neural Indices of Statistical Learning Later in Infancy! Out today in Dev. Science 🙂 A team effort (!) w/ coauthors incl. @dcnlabcolumbia @laurel_joy_gd @SarahMcCormick1 Nwabisa Mlandu, Michal Zieff and @KirstyDonald

Wahoo! Was fun to get some feedback on this new line of work :).

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Maternal predictability differs based on environmental affordances! Come check out these @dcnlabcolumbia lab managers’ poster this morning at #aps2023 👏🏻👏🏻

The first kid fMRI study I ever helped scan is out now! ⭐️A real joy to learn from @yaelanjung @amysuefinn and @DirkBWalther throughout this project (and the results are pretty cool, too!).

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We are excited about this finding because it highlights that core learning processes operate in unique ways across development, and it opens the door to many questions about how brain development (stay tuned!) and prior experience shape how we interact with the world. Wahoo!.

This means that older children and adults are forming memories which are less veridical than younger children: younger learners only endorsed exact matches with their experience as "old" but older learners also endorsed temporally shuffled versions of common experiences as "old".