Conference

08:00 - 08:45        Registration & Welcome Coffee

08:45 - 09:00        Opening Remarks

9:00 - Symposium 1: SL and neurobiology

09:00-9:30 (S-1.1.) Theme Speaker Lucia Melloni

9:30-9:50 (S-1.2.) Hierarchical processing among hippocampal, striatal and visual regions during implicit learning of temporal regularity

9:50-10:10 (S-1.3.) EEG frequency tagging and time-resolved decoding in visual statistical learning

10:10-10:30 (S-1.4.) Evidence for a role of neural entrainment in statistical learning

10:30 – 11:00       Coffee break

11:00 – 11:50       Keynote speaker 1: William Tecumseh-Fitch

                              Artificial Grammar Learning meets Formal Language Theory: A Productive Combination for Comparative Research

11:50 - 13:10        Oral Session 1: Evolution and developmental perspectives on SL

11:50 - 12:10 (OS-1.1.) Electrophysiological evidence for a human-like consonant bias in dogs' perception of continuous speech

12:10 - 12:30 (OS-1.2.) Using iterated learning to explore the music-language family resemblance

12:30 - 12:50 (OS-1.3.) Developmental shifts in the formation and representation of statistical memories

12:50- 13:10 (OS-1.4) Children are Better Linguistic Statistical Learners than Adults

13:10 - 15:00        Break (Lunch on your own)

15:00 - 16:00        Oral Session 2: SL in the real world

15:00 - 15:20 (OS-2.1.) Rethinking Probabilities: Why Corpus Statistics Fail to Capture Speakers' Dynamic Linguistic Behaviour

15:20 - 15:40 (OS-2.2.) Beyond rules: Statistical learning of non-phrasal abstract language structure

15:40 - 16:00 (OS-2.3.) Statistical learning of a hierarchical center-embedded structure. Influence of two distributional biases in the input: a Zipf distribution and semantic biases.

16:00 - 16:20        Poster Blitz I

Boosting the retrieval of temporally distributed statistical regularities by prefrontal cortex disruption—an rTMS study

Differences in visual statistical learning in deaf and hard-of-hearing early and late signing children

Discrete Impacts of Implicit and Explicit Knowledge on Cue Attention During Visual Statistical Learning: An Eye-Tracking Study

Domain-specific and domain-general statistical information supporting spelling skills

Effects of chronological age and prematurity on visual statistical learning in infancy

ERP correlates of speech segmentation in pigs and wild boars

Transitional Probabilities Modulate the Neural Dynamics During Learning of Visual Shape Sequences

Statistical Learning in Children with Dyslexia in Spanish: Interaction between modality and stimulus type

16:20 - 18:30        Poster Session I & Coffee break

A meta-analysis of 97 studies reveals that statistical learning and language ability are only weakly correlated

Boosting the retrieval of temporally distributed statistical regularities by prefrontal cortex disruption—an rTMS study

Context-dependent efficient coding links statistical and perceptual learning

Differences in visual statistical learning in deaf and hard-of-hearing early and late signing children

Discrete Impacts of Implicit and Explicit Knowledge on Cue Attention During Visual Statistical Learning: An Eye-Tracking Study

Domain-specific and domain-general statistical information supporting spelling skills

Effects of chronological age and prematurity on visual statistical learning in infancy

Electrophysiological study of visual statistical learning in pre-school ASD children

ERP correlates of speech segmentation in pigs and wild boars

Exploring the dynamics of hippocampal and visual responses during statistical learning: An fMRI investigation

Hippocampal involvement in reading

How underlying statistical structures modulate the neural response to rapid auditory sequences

Individual Differences in Retention of Novel Wordforms Learned Through Auditory Statistical Learning

Intact adult implicit probabilistic statistical learning following childhood adversity

Introducing semanticity as a novel quantitative measure in Statistical Learning

Language Models are Different: The Parametric Mechanics of Systematicity

Memory representations are flexibly adapted to orthographic systems: A comparison of English and Hebrew

Mirroring time: symmetry of memory and prediction in temporal judgments

Multiple Neural Mechanisms Regulate Statistical Learning of Quasi-Regularity of Artificial Orthography

Neurocognitive adaptation to syllabic timing: evidence from MEG

Statistical awareness: Is there a correlation between success in a statistical learning task and the level of awareness of the subject to the statistical regularity of the task?

Statistical learning decreases between 7 and 14 years of age – evidence from a longitudinal study

Statistical study of the oral production of Catalan-Spanish bilingual people with aphasia

The Foreign Language Effect Beyond Language

The interplay between executive functions and the rewiring of implicit probabilistic representations

The role of entropy in frame-based lexical categorization

Transitional Probabilities Modulate the Neural Dynamics During Learning of Visual Shape Sequences

Unveiling the Adaptive Brain: Exploring the Neurobiological Basis of Flexibility in Statistical Learning

Voice identity discrimination in the dog and the human brain – the role of conspecificity and relevance

09:00 - 09:50        Keynote Speaker 2: Tom Griffiths

                              Bayes in the age of intelligent machines

09:50 - 10:50        Oral Session 3: Computation

09:50 - 10:10 (OS-3.1.) Human feedback alters linguistic behavior of LLMs

10:10 - 10:30 (OS-3.2.) Semantic Development in the Absence of Visual Experience: Contribution of Word Co-occurrence Statistics

10:30 - 10:50 (OS-3.3.) Are Large Language Models Better than Distributional Semantics Models at Capturing Human Knowledge of Semantic Relations?

10:50 - 11:20        Coffee break

11:20 - 13:10        Symposium 2: SL and reading

11:20 - 11:50 (S-2.1.) Theme Speaker Kathy Rastle — How much can children learn about English morphology through book reading?

11:50 - 12:10 (S-2.2.) Learning to Read is an Exercise in Statistical Learning

12:10 - 12:30 (S-2.3.) Finding words in a sea of text: Word search as a measure of sensitivity to statistical regularities in reading

12:30 - 12:50 (S-2.4.) Testing verbal statistical learning as an index of language learning ability

12:50 - 13:10 (S-2.5.) Letter- and Letter-sequence-based prediction error representations in visual word recognition

13:10 - 15:00        Break (Lunch on your own)

15:00 - 16:30        Symposium 3: SL and vision

15:00 - 15:30 (S-3.1.) Theme speaker Joszef Fiser — The vision of statistical learning

15:30 - 15:50 (S-3.2.) There’s a schema in there! Statistical Learning Modulates Center-Surround Inhibition of the Visuospatial Attentional Focus

15:00 – 16:10 (S-3.3.) Pupil and gaze dynamics jointly measure individual statistical learning

16:10 - 16:30 (S-3.4.) Pupil dilation responses to the emergence and violation of visual regularities

16:20 - 16:40        Poster Blitz II

Adaptive Refixation Following Suboptimal Landing: A Hallmark of Skilled Reading

Consciousness in the statistical segmentation of words

Error-Based Learning of Grammatical Gender Systems Using Semantic Cues

How Do Implicit Statistical Learning and Hard-Wired Cognitive Biases Interact? An Eye-Tracking-Based Paradigm to Tame the Alternation Bias

Integrating Cues: Investigating the Impact of Pitch Cues in Statistical Learning on Speech Segmentation and Brain Synchronization in Children with and without Developmental Dyslexia

Modality and Stimulus Effects on Distributional Statistical Learning: Sound vs. Sight, Time vs. Space

Multilingual experience is associated with better statistical language learning but also L1 interference

Statistical Learning in Children with Dyslexia in Spanish: Interaction between modality and stimulus type

16:40 - 18:30        Poster Session II & Coffee break

09:00 - 09:50        Keynote Speaker 3: Rebecca Treiman

09:50 - 11:00        Oral session 4:  SL and audition

09:50 - 10:20 (OS-4.1.) Neural and Computational Basis of Brain’s Statistical Learning for Musical Creativity and Cognitive Individuality

10:20 - 10:40 (OS-4.2.) Statistical learning across task-irrelevant dimensions

10:40 - 11:00 (OS-4.3.) ARC: A Framework to Control for Acoustic and Phonological Confounds in Artificial Language Learning Experiments

11:00 - 11:20        Poster Blitz III

Implicit-statistical and explicit learning as predictors of early L2 acquisition

Neural mechanisms of Sequential Learning: representational change of brain pattern activity

Non-adjacent dependency learning in monolingual and multilingual 12-month-olds: An online habituation study

Semantic learning from statistical learning: insights from child development

Sequential Statistical Learning: Investigating Domain-Specific and Domain-General Aspects of Implicit Learning Across Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Modalities.

Task-dependent learning outcomes: Successful non-adjacent dependency learning in a rating task but not in 2AFC

The effect of repetition spacing in multiword sequence learning

The influence of Attention on Statistical Learning and vice versa: Insights from frequency-based grouping as revealed by EEG frequency tagging.

Statistical Learning in Children with Dyslexia in Spanish: Interaction between modality and stimulus type

11:20 - 12:40        Poster Session III & Coffee break

A Probabilistic-Functionalistic Approach for Exploring the Predictive Brain and Language Development: Perspectives from Taiwan Cognitive Neuroscience Labs

An fMRI study investigating the neural correlates of processing adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies in visual nonlinguistic sequences.

Context effect on reading aloud and statistical learning: are good predictors good statistical learners?

Do autistic traits affect statistical learning and sensitivity to interference?

Exploring the contribution of statistical learning and general cognitive abilities to language processing: a structural equation modelling study

Good performers in statistical learning may not switch to new rules efficiently: Evidence from individual differences

How modality-specific are statistical learning processes in the context of sign languages? Comparing native signers and non-signers.

Implicit-statistical and explicit learning as predictors of early L2 acquisition

Infants detect visual regularities during stimulus exposure: an EEG frequency tagging approach

Investigating the neural basis of statistical learning with intracranial neural entrainment

Is the availability of the production system critical for lexical prediction in a second language?

Mechanisms of Frequency-based Category Learning: Discrepancy between Neural response and Behaviour

Multilingualism and its Bearing on Statistical Learning

Neural mechanisms of Sequential Learning: representational change of brain pattern activity

Neural tracking of statistical structures in speech streams with and without prosody

Non-adjacent dependency learning in monolingual and multilingual 12-month-olds: An online habituation study

Semantic learning from statistical learning: insights from child development

Sequential Statistical Learning: Investigating Domain-Specific and Domain-General Aspects of Implicit Learning Across Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Modalities.

Slow updating of existing knowledge in Borderline Personality Disorder: Evidence from a probabilistic sequence learning task

Statistical Learning of Phoneme Regularities in Kannada-Speaking Children: The Role of Chunk Order

Task-dependent learning outcomes: Successful non-adjacent dependency learning in a rating task but not in 2AFC

The effect of dynamic motion and simultaneous/sequential presentation on the statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies in artificial sign language learning

The effect of repetition spacing in multiword sequence learning

The influence of Attention on Statistical Learning and vice versa: Insights from frequency-based grouping as revealed by EEG frequency tagging.

The predominant role of spatial information in a triplet segmentation task of discontinuous trajectory sequences

Unlocking the Potential of Pre-Testing: Comparative Analysis with Retrieval Practice and Across Age Groups

Visual Statistical Learning Across Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Domains in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals

When statistics are not enough: Limitations on cross-situational learning of flexible word order

12:40 - 15:00        Break (Lunch on your own)

15:00 - 16:40        Symposium 4: SL and learning mechanisms

15:00 – 15:30 (S-4.1.)  Theme speaker Bozena Pajak — Maximizing statistical learning in educational settings: The case of Duolingo

15:30 – 15:50 (S-4.2.)  Can Explicit Instruction Boost Statistical Learning? A Meta-Analytical Review

15:50 – 16:10 (S-4.3.)  Is Statistical Learning Performance Explained by a Fixed Individual Ability or by Experimental Protocol? A Predictive Eye Movements Investigation

16:10 – 16:30 (S-4.4.)  Transitional Probabilities are Updated in Real Time During Statistical Learning

15:20 – 15:40 (S-4.5.)  Foraging for regularities that shape speech perception and production.

15:40 - 16:20        Coffee break

16:20 - 17:00        Early career talk Anna Schapiro: Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time

17:00 - 18:00        Closing remarks & Round table

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20:00 - 23:00       Social Dinner

Assistant Professor & Principle investigator,

Assistant Professor

Professor of Psychology

Senior Scientist. Group Leader

BCBL Director. Ikerbasque Research Professor. Group Leader

The conference will take place at the Palacio Miramar in Donostia - San Sebastián, the Basque Country, which is located adjacent to the sea and just a short 5-10 minute walk from the city center.

How to get there

ACCOMMODATION

We recommend you make your reservation as soon as possible, as the city will host another major event at the same time.

For accommodation options you can check the Accommodation official website of San Sebastián (http://www.sansebastianreservas.com/), where you can find the full list of hotels, hostels, student hostels as Olarain (http://www.olarain.com/) and also last minute offers.

HURRY UP! Remember that Donostia / San Sebastian is a tourist destination, and the longer you wait to arrange your accommodation, the harder it will be to find any at a reasonable price.

HOW TO GET HERE

Its strategic situation and the fact that it\'s well provided with infrastructures have made San Sebastian an easily accessible place, connected by every kind of transport to the rest of the world. Choose the one that suits you best and begin your journey to San Sebastian!

GETTING TO SAN SEBASTIAN BY PLANE

Within a radius of barely 100 kilometres San Sebastian lays claim to 5 airports, 3 of them international.

San Sebastian lays claim to one airport 20 minutes from the city centre. It has a shuttle service to the main Spanish cities: Madrid and Barcelona.

Not far away are the airports of Bilbao, connected to the whole of Europe; and Biarritz, served by French, international and low-cost airlines.

San Sebastian Airport (EAS) - 20 kms.
Bilbao Airport (BIO) - 105 kms.
Vitoria-Gasteiz Airport (VIT) - 120 kms.
Pamplona Airport (PNA) - 90 kms.
Biarritz Airport (BIQ) - 40 kms.

www.aena.es

www.biarritz.aeroport.fr

Shuttle service Bilbao Airport <> San Sebastián

Shuttle service San Sebastian airport <> city centre

GETTING TO SAN SEBASTIAN BY TRAIN

Situated right in the centre of the city, San Sebastian\'s train station, known as the Estación del Norte (Northern Station), is connected to a large number of Spanish cities, including Madrid and Barcelona, and also international destinations, such as Paris and Lisbon.

Getting to and from San Sebastian by train is going to be much quicker thanks to the new High-Speed Train, which will connect the city with numerous destinations in the near future.

There is also a narrow-gauge railway that runs to Bilbao and different Basque coastal towns such as Zarautz, plus a line on which a train called the \"Topo\" runs to Hendaye in France.

http://www.renfe.es
http://www.euskotren.es
http://www.sncf.com

CAR PARKS

Getting to San Sebastian by car is very simple. The city is connected to the rest of Spain and to France by National Road N1/AP1 (Madrid-Irún), the A-8 (Bilbao-Irún) and A-63 (Paris-Irún) motorways, and the A-15 trunk road (Pamplona-San Sebastian).
Nearly all areas of the city can be accessed on one of these highways.

If you come to San Sebastian by car, there are more than 6,000 parking places available to you at different points in the city.

Check the state of the REAL TIME parkings, by click here.

PARKING FOR MOTORHOME

20 parking places approximately.
Marks between parking places.
Lighting.
Water outlet.
Waste disposal area.

Motorhome parking rules:

It is allowed to park but not to camp.
Using awning is not allowed.
Tables and chairs are not allowed in the parking area.
Wedges are allowed.
Please respect the neighbourhood.

GETTING TO SAN SEBASTIAN BY BUS

San Sebastian has a sizeable bus station that connects the city with others throughout Spain and part of the European continent.

Main bus lines companies from San Sebastian:

Eurolines
Alsa
Vibasa
Pesa
Conda

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