PROGRAM
Thursday, June 25th, 2015. Centro Carlos Santamaría - Auditorium, Donostia - San Sebastian
- 08:00 - 08:45
- Coffee and Registration
- 08:45 - 09:00
- Opening remarks
- 09:00 - 09:50
- Keynote speaker 1: Morten Christiansen. SEPEX Sponsored Speaker.
- 09:50 - 10:50
- Oral Session 1
- 09:50 - 10:10 (OS-1.1.) Generalizing visual rules in 3-dimensional perceptual space. Jozsef Fiser & Johanna Ledley
- 10:10 - 10:30 (OS-1.2.) Processes Underlying Infants' and Adults' Visual Statistical Learning. Lauren Slone & Scott Johnson
- 10:30 - 10:50 (OS-1.3.) How Abstract is Statistical Learning? Comparing Learning Across Visual and Auditory Perceptual Modalities In Infancy. Lauren Emberson, Jennifer Misyak, Jennifer Schwade, Morten Christiansen & Michael Goldstein
- 10:50 - 11:20
- Coffee break
- 11:20 - 13:10
- Symposium 1: Neurobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium
- 11:20 - 11:50 (S-1.1.) Theme Speaker: Barbara Knowlton Barbara Knowlton
- 11:50 - 12:10 (S-1.2.) Learning the statistics of uncertainty: a neurobiological perspective. Uri Hasson
- 12:10 - 12:30 (S-1.3.) The neural representation of optimal decision-making during human spatial forward planning. Raphael Kaplan, John King, Raphael Koster, Will Penny, Neil Burgess & Karl Friston
- 12:30 - 12:50 (S-1.4.) Competitive neurocognitive networks underlying statistical learning. Dezso Nemeth & Karolina Janacsek
- 12:50 - 13:10 (S-1.5.) Sensitivity to visual and auditory disorder in modality-specific sensory cortex is reduced in a multi-modal audio-visual context. Ben Davis & Uri Hasson
- 13:10 - 14:40
- Break (Lunch on your own)
- 14:40 - 16:30
- Symposium 2: Computational Modeling
- 14:40 - 15:10 (S-2.1.) Theme Speaker: Erik Thiessen Erik Thiessen
- 15:10 - 15:30 (S-2.2.) Modelling short- and long-term statistical learning of music as a process of predictive entropy reduction. Niels Chr. Hansen, Psyche Loui, Peter Vuust & Marcus Pearce
- 15:30 - 15:50 (S-2.3.) Longterm semantic adaptation as statistical learning. Padraig O'Seaghdha, Hector Munoz-Avila & Tyler Seip
- 15:50 - 16:10 (S-2.4.) Predicting semantic constraints in implicit language learning with distributional semantics. Dimitrios Alikaniotis & John N Williams
- 16:10 - 16:30 (S-2.5.) The Retention & Recognition Model: A Processing Model of Artificial Language Learning. Raquel G. Alhama & Willem Zuidema
- 16:30 - 18:00
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Context effects in regularity extraction Laure Minier, Joël Fagot & Arnaud Rey
Auditory statistical learning in action video game players Irene Altarelli, Patricia Reeder, Elissa Newport, Richard Aslin & Daphne Bavelier
Statistical language learning is affected by experience both inside and outside the lab Christine Potter, Tianlin Wang & Jenny Saffran
Implicit Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder Fenny Zwart, Roald Maes, Constance Vissers, Roy Kessels & Jos Egger
Simultaneous segmentation and generalisation from nonadjacent dependencies Frost Rebecca & Monaghan Padraic
Differences between children and adults in using visual information to learn segmentation Ori Lavi-Rotbain & Inbal Arnon
Simultaneous and (possibly) hierarchical syllable-position and co-occurrence tracking Amélie Bernard & Kristine H. Onishi
Generalisation and consolidation of novel written words and objects in an fMRI study Connor Quinn, J. S. H. Taylor & Matthew H. Davis
Infants predict observed actions based on statistical structure Claire Monroy, Sarah Gerson & Sabine Hunnius
The Negative Effect of Prior Exposure on Remote Dependency Learning Ileana Grama, Annemarie Kerkhoff & Frank Wijnen
Infant-tuned distributions: How caregivers select and stretch opportunities to learn about objects Jessica Kosie & Caitlin Fausey
The role of the prefrontal cortex in statistical learning and its consolidation Karolina Janacsek, Geza Gergely Ambrus, Walter Paulus, Andrea Antal & Dezso Nemeth
Frequency and Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Turkish Talat Bulut, Hüseyin Uysal & Denise Wu
The changing daily rhythm of infancy Caitlin Fausey, Swapnaa Jayaraman & Linda Smith
Representations extracted during statistical learning: developmental differences in ages 5-10 and adults Alexis Black & Carla Hudson Kam
Children with dyslexia are impaired in the implicit acquisition of orthographic rules Luciana Nigro, Ian Simpson, Gracia Jiménez-Fernández & Sylvia Defior
Isolated Words Selectively Enhance Memory for High Transitional Probability Sound Sequences Ferhat Karaman & Jessica Hay
The Brain as A Statistician: An fMRI study of the Artificial Grammar Learning Paradigm in Children Elpis Pavlidou , W. Einar Mencl, Bonnie Buis, Bryan Cort, Jocelyn Springfield, Sarah R. Harris & Kenneth Pugh
Skewing the evidence: The effect of input structure on child and adult learning of lexically based patterns in an artificial language Elizabeth Wonnacott, Helen Brown & Kate Nation
Infant statistical learners attend selectively to patterned over random visual objects Kristen Tummeltshammer, Rachel Wu & Natasha Kirkham
Optimal Bias Recovery Conditions in Statistical Learning Experiments Bill Thompson
Token-based generalisation of novel inflectional affixes is enhanced by overnight consolidation Lydia Viñals, Jelena Mirkovic, Gareth Gaskell & Matt Davis
What is necessary (and not) for rule learning? Andreea Geambasu, Michelle J. Spierings, Clara C. Levelt & Carel ten Cate
Statistical learning of nonadjacent dependencies in baboons and humans Raphaëlle Malassis, Arnaud Rey & Joël Fagot
The cultural evolution of lexical syntactic categories in an Iterated Learning experiment Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith & Simon Kirby
- 18:00 - 18:50
- Keynote Speaker 2: Linda Smith, Indiana University
Friday, June 26th, 2015. Centro Carlos Santamaría - Auditorium, Donostia - San Sebastian
- 09:00 - 09:50
- Keynote Speaker 3: Elissa Newport
- 09:50 - 10:50
- Oral Session 2
- 09:50 - 10:10 (OS-2.1.) Infants' Statistical Learning Ability is Related to Real-Time Language Processing. Jill Lany
- 10:10 - 10:30 (OS-2.2.) The dividing note- are musicians better at an online auditory and visual statistical learning task? Pragati Rao Mandikal Vasuki, Mridula Sharma, Ronny Ibrahim, Katherine Demuth & Joanne Arciuli
- 10:30 - 10:50 (OS-2.3.) Measuring individual differences in statistical learning: Current pitfalls and possible solutions. Noam Siegelman, Louisa Bogaerts & Ram Frost
- 10:50 - 11:20
- Coffee break
- 11:20 - 13:10
- Symposium 3: Evolution & Cross-species Comparisons
- 11:20 - 11:50 (S-3.1.) Theme Speaker: Kenny Smith Kenny Smith
- 11:50 - 12:10 (S-3.2.) Rule learning: Where budgerigars learn abstract rules and zebra finches focus on the details. Michelle Spierings & Carel ten Cate
- 12:10 - 12:30 (S-3.3.) Regularity extraction in nonhuman and human primates. Laure Minier, Joel Fagot & Arnaud Rey
- 12:30 - 12:50 (S-3.4.) Self-training in zebra finches reveals genetically and environmentally determined aspects of song. Olga Feher, Kenny Smith, Iva Ljubicic, Kenta Suzuki, Kazuo Okanoya & Ofer Tchernichovski
- 12:50 - 13:10 (S-3.5.) Cross-modal sequence processing in chimpanzees. Andrea Ravignani & Ruth Sonnweber
- 13:10 - 14:40
- Break (Lunch on your own)
- 14:40 - 16:30
- Symposium 4: Consciousness & Implicit Learning
- 14:40 - 15:10 (S-4.1.) Theme Speaker: Axel Cleermans Axel Cleeremans
- 15:10 - 15:30 (S-4.2.) Impact of presentation rate and incidental vs. intentional learning conditions on visual statistical learning: Acquired knowledge and its availability to consciousness. Julie Bertels, Arnaud Destrebecqz & Ana Franco
- 15:30 - 15:50 (S-4.3.) Functional differences between statistical learning with and without explicit training. Laura Batterink, Paul Reber & Ken Paller
- 15:50 - 16:10 (S-4.4.) Revisiting the Role of Awareness in Implicit Language Learning. Florian Riedel, Elma Kerz & Daniel Wiechmann
- 16:10 - 16:30 (S-4.5.) Beyond statistical learning? Continuous sequence repetition matters in implicit sequence learning. Beat Meier
- 16:30 - 18:00
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Theoretical Mechanisms of Spatiotemporal Sequence Learning in V1 Kevin Himberger & Christopher Honey
Visual statistical learning in the newborn chick (Gallus gallus) Chiara Santolin & Lucia Regolin
Frequency and prosody cues to phrase segmentation by adult bilinguals Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Gorka Elordieta, Judit Gervain, Nuria Sebastián-Gallés & Itziar Laka
Linguistic input variability and the acquisition of complex morphology Mark Atkinson, Simon Kirby & Kenny Smith
Distributional Learning of Musical Pitch Categories Jia Hoong Ong & Denis Burnham
Enough is enough: Anchoring effects in statistical learning Federica Bulgarelli & Daniel Weiss
Infants learn relational patterns most reliably from communicative signals Brock Ferguson & Casey Lew-Williams
Reducing the musical workspace: Favorite songs in early infancy Jennifer Mendoza & Caitlin Fausey
Sum faces: How infants' typical, daily visual experiences shape their face processing abilities Nicole A. Sugden & Margaret C. Moulson
Oh brother! Increased child face exposure and diversity in children with siblings Nicole A. Sugden, Swapnaa Jayaraman & Linda B. Smith
Regions of equivalence in perceptual learning of intonation Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Paul Olejarczuk & Melissa Redford
Failures and successes in infant artificial grammar learning Andreea Geambasu & Clara C. Levelt
The Contribution of Statistical Learning Ability to the Presence of Form-To-Expectation Matching Effects in Dyslexic Readers Thomas Farmer, Paul Engelhardt, Andriy Myachykov & Joanna Greer
Emergence of systematic rhythmic structure from iterated learning of drumming sequences Andrea Ravignani, Tania Delgado & Simon Kirby
Implicit orthographic learning in children Ian Simpson, Gracia Jiménez-Fernández, Luciana Nigro & Sylvia Defior
Visual statistical learning in children with specific language impairment and hearing impairment Janne von Koss Torkildsen, Joanne Arciuli, Christiane Lingås Haukedal, Marit Enny Gismarvik & Ona Bø Wie
How what you know changes what you learn: how existing knowledge impacts informativity in statistical learning Inbal Arnon & Noam Siegelman
Infants show spontaneous sensitivity to complexity in visual-temporal sequences Caspar Addyman & Denis Mareschal
Repetition and novelty in six million words of child-directed speech Caitlin Fausey & Jon Willits
Statistical learned helplessness in humans Arit Glicksohn, Hagit Magen & Asher Cohen
Implicit task sequence learning and consolidation: a tDCS study Branislav Savic, Rène Müri & Beat Meier
The nature of statistical learning (SL) deficits among adults with Developmental Dyslexia (DD) : A-modal or modality specific? Shani Kahta & Rachel Schiff
Predicting individual differences in sequence learning from oscillatory activity in human MEG-data Frédéric Roux, Ram Frost & Manuel Carreiras
Spatiotemporal regularity and infants' visual predictions: an ERP study Kristen Tummeltshammer, Barbara Pomiechowska, Teodora Gliga & Natasha Kirkham
- 18:00 - 18:50
- Keynote Speaker 4: Nicolas Turk-Browne, Princeton U.
Saturday, June 27th, 2015. Palacio Miramar, Donostia - San Sebastian
- 09:00 - 10:50
- Symposium 5: developmental aspects of SL
- 09:00 - 09:30 (S-5.1.) Theme Speaker: Rebecca Gomez Rebecca L. Gomez
- 09:30 - 09:00 (S-5.2.) Statistical regularities in vocabulary knowledge and toddlers' word recognition. Lynn Perry & Jenny Saffran
- 09:50 - 10:10 (S-5.3.) Developmental Differences in Children's Statistical Learning Abilities. Inbal Arnon & Limor Raviv
- 10:10 - 10:30 (S-5.4.) Developmental trajectory of auditory rule learning from infancy to adulthood: An electrophysiological investigation. Jutta L. Mueller, Angela D. Friederici & Claudia Männel
- 10:30 - 10:50 (S-5.5.) "Development occurs in the middle of things": Using the richness of the input to support robust representations. Natasha Kirkham, Kristen Tummeltshammer, Rachel Wu & Denis Mareschal
- 10:50 - 11:20
- Coffee break
- 11:20 - 12:40
- Oral Session 3
- 11:20 - 11:40 (OS-3.1.) The one that got away: Statistical learning of multiple inputs. Daniel Weiss, Federica Bulgarelli & Tim Poepsel
- 11:40 - 12:00 (OS-3.2.) Speech Segmentation by Statistical Learning is supported by domain-general processes within Working Memory. Shekeila Palmer & Sven Mattys
- 12:00 - 12:20 (OS-3.3.) Noise-band vocoding interferes with auditory statistical learning in adults. Casey Lew-Williams, Hillary Snyder, Paul Reinhart & Tina Grieco-Calub
- 12:20 - 12:40 (OS-3.4.) Segmenting words of varying length: Statistics don't always win. Ron Pomper, Christine Potter, Viridiana Benitez & Jenny Saffran
- 12:40 - 14:10
- Break (Lunch on your own)
- 14:10 - 15:10
- Oral Session 4
- 14:10 - 14:30 (OS-4.1.) Statistical properties of newly learned mappings influence consolidation of linguistic knowledge. Jelena Mirkovic & Gareth Gaskell
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14:30 - 14:50 (OS-4.2.) You learn what you encode: differential encoding in different sequences of study.
Paulo Carvalho & Robert Goldstone
- 14:50 - 15:10 (OS-4.3.) Conceptual knowledge modulates the phonemic status of sounds. Abdellah Fourtassi & Emmanuel Dupoux
- 15:10 - 17:10
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Statistical learning of speech sounds in normal reading children Maaike Vandermosten, Jan Wouters, Pol Ghesquière & Narly Golestani
Discovering phonotactic patterns in fluent speech Viridiana L. Benitez & Jenny Saffran
Developmental differences in grammar learning from multiple cues: Is there a role for memory consolidation? Jelena Mirkovic, Marissa Yee & Emma Hayiou-Thomas
The impact of literacy on statistical speech segmentation Ana Franco, Julie Bertels & Régine Kolinsky
Measuring real-time change in word learning Sarah Kucker, Bob McMurray & Larissa Samuelson
Statistical learning of an artificial language: combining ERP and behavioral measures to disentangle implicit and explicit processes Laura Sánchez-Blanco, Clément François, Matti Laine & Toni Cunillera
The Role of Domain Specific Processing Resources in Statistical Language Learning Nicolette Noonan & Lisa Archibald
Cross-situational statistical learning of new words despite focal bilateral hippocampal damage and severe amnesia David Warren, Tanja Roembke, Bob McMurray & Melissa Duff
Statistical learning over sociolinguistic cues in children and adults Anna Samara, Kenny Smith, Helen Brown, Olga Fehér & Elizabeth Wonnacott
Sequence Learning as an Individual Ability: The Hebb Repetition Problem Louisa Bogaerts, Noam Siegelman, Tali Benporat, Arnaud Szmalec, Wouter Duyck & Ram Frost
Role of Statistical Learning and Continued Learning in Determining L2 Acquisition: Evidence from Non-native Chinese Learners Anya Yu, Una Hsuan, Rose Lee, Angela Tzeng, Daisy Hung & Denise Wu
A new approach to reveal how reading ability shapes lexicality effect on N400 Yu-Lin Tzeng, Chun-Hsien Hsu & Chia-Ying Lee
Learning syntactic categories (gender classes): a language learning study with 7-year-olds Elizabeth Wonnacott, Lydia Gunning & Helen Brown
How sublexical cues determine the dynamics of the development of lexical knowledge for segmentation: an artificial language approach Sophie Gallot, Odile Bagou & Ulrich Frauenfelder
Tracking how co-occurring syllables become words over time in artificial word learning Odile Bagou, Sophie Gallot & Ulrich Frauenfelder
Humans have the ability of zero-shot learning Abdellah Fourtassi & Emmanuel Dupoux
Visual statistical learning in 8-month-old infants: A variation of Kirkham et al. (2002) Estibaliz San Anton , Arnaud Destrebecqz & Julie Bertels
Neural correlates of visual word recognition in skilled readers and children with high and low reading abilities Chun-Hsien Hsu, Yu-Lin Tzeng & Chia-Ying Lee
Modulating the sensitivity to changes in visual statistical regularities Amir Tal & Moshe Bar
Preserved statistical learning despite focal bilateral hippocampal damage Natalie Covington, Sarah Brown-Schmidt & Melissa Duff
Predictive relationships strengthen non-adjacent dependency learning: Evidence from a self-paced statistical learning task Elisabeth Karuza, Thomas Farmer, Alex Fine, Francis Smith & T. Florian Jaeger
Do you see the parts or the whole? Language plays a role in visual learning of objects Catarina Vales & Linda Smith
Brain and behavioral differences in speech segmentation between typically developing children and children with ASD Neelima Wagley, Jessica S.F. Hay, Margaret Ugolini, Susan M. Bowyer, Renee Lajiness-O'Neill, Jonathan Brennan & Ioulia Kovelman
Towards an Understanding of Abstract Noun Concept Representation George Cree & Jordan Benko
Frequency tagged responses index auditory statistical learning Juliane Farthouat, Marc Op de Beeck, Alison Mary, Julie Delpouve, Rachel Leproult, Ana Franco, Xavier de Tiège & Philippe Peigneux
Statistical Learning of Long-distance Dependencies is Modulated by Attention Deficits in Children with Specific Language Impairment Anna Martinez-Alvarez, Spiros Christou, Maria José Buj Pereda, Monica Sanz-Torrent, Ferran Pons & Ruth de Diego-Balaguer
Phonological features affect statistical learning: vowel vs. consonant harmony Alexis Black & Masaki Noguchi
Many faces, one rule: Abstract rule learning for face sequences in 7-month-old infants Hermann Bulf, Viola Brenna, Eloisa Valenza, Scott Johnson & Chiara Turati
Left-to-right oriented sequences improve abstract rule learning in 7-month-old infants Hermann Bulf, Valeria Gariboldi, Maria Dolores de Hevia & Viola Macchi Cassia
ERP evidence of implicit and explicit statistical learning of visual shape sequences Clément François, Claudia Peñaloza, Joaquin Moris, Barbara Tillmann & Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells
Context-specific transitional probabilities in infant-directed speech Rose Maier & Caitlin M. Fausey
Phonology affects statistical learning in artificial speech segmentation: insights from behavioral experiments and computational modeling Fabio Trecca, Fred Callaway, Stewart M. McCauley & M. H. Christiansen
Increasing frequency leads to semantic specialization through the suspicious coincidence effect in statistical learning of constructions Zara Harmon & Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Digging up the building blocks of language: Age-of-Acquisition effects for multiword phrases Inbal Arnon, Stewart McCauley & Morten Christiansen
Implicit learning of two artificial tone grammars presented successively Camille Guillemin, Gildas Jeantet & Barbara Tillmann
A memory perspective on sensitive periods in language acquisition Eleonore Smalle , L Bogaerts, M Simonis, W Duyck, M.P.A Page, M Edwards & A Szmalec
Implicit Artificial Grammar Learning across modalities in young typical readers. Elpis Pavlidou, Kenneth Pugh, Nina Gumkowski & Joanne Williams
A pitch interval typical of infant-directed speech facilitates word learning when combined with cross-situational statistics Piera Filippi & Bruno Gingras
Objective and subjective measures of cross-situational learning. Ana Franco, Axel Cleeremans & Arnaud Destrebecqz
Statistical learning of categories is not specialized for speech Sabine van der Ham & Bart de Boer
Using Musical Cues to boost speech segmentation in 2 days-old neonates: Clément François, Maria Teixido, Thaïs Agut-Quijan, Laura Bosch & Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells
TRACX: A connectionist model of statistical learning and chunk extraction. Caspar Addyman, Robert M. French & Denis Mareschal
Do labels segmented via statistical learning produce a Ganong effect? Lucy C. Erickson & Erik D. Thiessen
A top-down influence of social context on syntactic priming; I adapt to you if you adapt to me Lotte Schoot, Peter Hagoort & Katrien Segaert
Inter-trial contextual cueing is confined to temporally adjacent contingences: the limits of implicit statistical Learning mechanisms Annabelle Goujon, Cyril Thomas & André Didierjean
Revealing Neural Changes in Infant Occipital Cortex After Cross-Modal Statistical Learning: An fNIRS Study of 6-month-olds Lauren Emberson & Richard Aslin
Are learning and memory affected by the presence of eye contact? Cristina I. Galusca, Alveno Vitale & Luca L. Bonatti
- 17:10 - 18:00
- Keynote Speaker 5: Richard Aslin
- 18:00 - 19:00
- Round-table Panel Discussion, Concluding remarks
- 19:00 - 20:00
- Closing Reception Miramar