Whereas our meta-analysis (doi.org/10.3917/anps...) indicates a significant but small association between #StatisticalLearning and #Language, the latest work by @haoyuzhou.bsky.social using 23 tasks and latent variable methods (a fishing net rather than rod!) reveals a stronger interconnection.

Had a wonderful time presenting some fresh results from my factor analysis study on SL and language at #PsycholinguisticsInFlanders in Pavia! As a teaser for my upcoming talk on the same subject at #IASL26, here is a nice visual made by Louisa @bogaertslab.bsky.social Stay tuned!

PS is excited to announce the launch of "Individual Differences in Cognition” (IDIC), an open-access journal on research in cognitive psychology, science, and neuroscience. Co-Editors-in-Chief are Andrew R.A. Conway & Michael J. Kane. Manuscripts accepted this spring. More information coming soon!

Presented at #NeuroCog2025 this Tuesday my pilot results of linking SL to language on the construct level. The poster is in Toy Story color theme if you did not notice🛸 and will be available on my research gate 🙌 Painting of the conference: defo the season for a good cuppa tea now ☕️

Curious about the human ability to extract regularities from sensory input (i.e., “statistical learning”) and individual differences therein? #CognitiveScience #Learning Our #Consensus paper presents the collective insights of 27 researchers worldwide 🌎 💬 🌍 💬 🌏 💬: 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

We kicked off #NeuroNarratives last weekend during #BrainAwarenessWeek — bringing together artists & neuroscientists to share ideas and form collaboration pairs. Huge thanks to all the residents! 🧠🎨 Can’t wait to see what unfolds this year. Stay tuned! ✨ #ArtScience #BAW2025

🧠 Bridging Science & Art 🎨 Day 4 of #BAW2025 and our #NeuroNarratives residents continue pushing boundaries! @danafoundation.bsky.social Discover today’s featured residents! 📷 #BrainAwarenessWeek #ArtMeetsScience

Really happy to have presented a poster on my work “Reliable measures of orthographic statistical learning predict spelling but not reading skill” at #AMLAP2025. Other honorable mentions go to this gorgeous painting at the national gallery and the beautiful weather throughout 🌅🕶️☔️

I think this is a very powerful example of how 'the language network' comes about (or doesn't). See our paper on why we think 'the language network' is widely distributed in the brain: pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i... (same pic of simulation posted below w/ white background for those who use dark mode)

@boevesam.bsky.social & Haoyu Zhou's paper is out! The title says it all: 'A meta analysis of 97 studies reveals that statistical learning and language ability are only weakly correlated'. For those who like exact numbers, r = 0.16. 📑 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Proud PI! 👏 On #TeaP2025 two lab members presented their work: Haoyu Zhou in the symposium #StatisticalLearning and its Role in #Language and #Reading acquisition. @boevesam.bsky.social in the symposium From Babies to Semantics: Leveraging #LanguageModels for #Psycholinguistic Research.