A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing: Children's statistical learning leads to declines in learning performance

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:00:00 -0500

White's research addresses the Learning strategic goal through the training of young researchers in skills that combine linguistic analysis, experimentation with infants, and computational modeling. These skills are rarely found in the same individual. White's research represents an important discovery in its own right, because it shows that children rely on different sources of linguistic information in their environment at different developmental stages, sometimes leading to an unexpected decline in learning performance.