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Statistical learning beyond words in human neonates.

Ana Fló^1,2, Lucas Benjamin^1,3,4, Marie Palu¹

¹Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CNRS ERL 9003, INSERM U992, CEA, Université Paris Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

|February 17, 2025

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Neonates can learn statistical patterns in speech, processing both phonetic and voice information independently. Phonetic regularities trigger early lexical processing, demonstrating parallel learning from birth.

Keywords:

ERP human language neonates neural entrainment neuroscience speech statistical learning

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

Infants' statistical learning (SL) abilities, observed at 8 months, suggest early language acquisition mechanisms.
Previous research indicates SL extends beyond language, challenging domain-specific hypotheses.
Speech contains multiple dimensions (e.g., phonemes, speaker identity) that could be targets for SL.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if neonates compute transition probabilities (TPs) on one speech dimension (phonetic or voice) despite irrelevant variation on the other.
To determine if the linguistic (phonetic) dimension has processing advantages over the voice dimension in neonates.

Main Methods:

Two experiments using artificial speech streams with neonates, recording EEG.
Familiarization with sequences structured by either phonetic TPs (voices varied) or voice TPs (phonetics varied).
Analysis of neural entrainment and event-related potentials (ERPs) to familiar and novel duplets.

Main Results:

Neonates demonstrated neural entrainment to regularities in both phonetic and voice dimensions, indicating universal SL mechanisms.
Distinct ERPs were observed for correct versus incorrect duplets in both experiments.
Only phonetic regularities elicited a specific ERP component (putative N400 precursor), suggesting early lexical processing.

Conclusions:

Neonates can compute TPs in parallel across different speech dimensions, even with distracting information.
The phonetic dimension of speech appears to engage distinct neural pathways related to lexical processing from birth.
These findings support the universality of SL and its capacity to inform higher-order cognitive networks early in development.