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COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF LEARNING AND LANGUAGE LAB

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2025

PUBLICATIONS

Batterink, L.J., Hsiung, S., Herrera-Chaves, D., & Köhler, S. (2025). Implicit prediction as a consequence of statistical learning. Cognition, 106088.

Lammert, J.M., Roberts, A.C., McRae, K., Batterink, L.J., & Butler, B.E. (2025). Early identification of language disorders using natural language processing and machine learning: Challenges and emerging approaches. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 68, 705-718.

2024

Berger, S. & Batterink, L.J. (2024). Children extract a new linguistic rule more quickly than adults. Developmental Science, e13498.

Newton, A.T., Tremblay, P.F., Batterink, L.J., & Reid, G.J. (2024). Early nap cessation in young children as a correlate of language and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from a large Canadian sample. Sleep Health, 190-197.

Sweet, S. J., Van Hedger, S.C.& Batterink, L. J. (2024). Of words and whistles: Statistical learning operates similarly for sounds perceived as speech and nonspeech. Cognition, 242, 105649.

2023

Batterink, L.J., Mulgrew, J., & Gibbings, A. (2023). Rhythmically modulating neural entrainment during exposure to regularities influences statistical learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 107-127.

Wang, H.S., Kohler, S., & Batterink, L.J. (2023). Separate but not independent: Behavioral pattern separation and statistical learning are differential affected by aging. Cognition, 239, 105564. indicates equal contribution

Wang, H.S., Rosenbaum, R.S., Baker, S., Lauzon, C., Batterink, L.J., & Kohler, S. (2023). Dentate gyrus integrity is necessary for behavioral pattern separation but not statistical learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 900-917. *indicates equal contribution

Troyer, M, Kutas, M, Batterink, L.J. & McRae, K. (2023). Nuances of knowing: Brain potentials reveal implicit effects of domain knowledge on word processing in the absence of sentence-level knowledge. Psychophysiology, e14422.

Newton, A.T., Tremblay, P.F., Batterink, L.J. & Reid, G.J. (2023). Predictors of Early Nap Cessation: Longitudinal Findings from a Large Study of Young Children. Sleep Epidemiology, 100054

2022

Alexander, E., Van Hedger, S.C., & Batterink, L.J. (2022). Learning words without trying: Daily second language podcasts support word-form learning in adults. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 751-762.

Moreau, C. N., Joanisse, M.F., Mulgrew, J., & Batterink, L.J. (2022). No statistical learning advantage in children over adults: Evidence from neural entrainment. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 57, 101154.

Batterink, L.J. & Zhang, S. (2022). Simple statistical regularities presented during sleep are detected but not retained. Neuropsychologia, 164, 108106.

Van Hedger, S. C., Johnsrude, I. S., & Batterink, L.J. (2022). Musical instrument familiarity affects statistical learning of tone sequences. Cognition, 218, 104949.

2021

Moser, J., Batterink, L, Hegner, Y.L., Schleger F., Braun, C., Paller, K.A., & Preissl, H. (2021). Dynamics of nonlinguistic statistical learning: From neural entrainment to the emergence of explicit knowledge. NeuroImage, 240, 118378

Batterink, L.J. & Choi, D. (2021). Optimizing steady-state responses to index statistical learning: Response to Benjamin and colleagues. Cortex, 142, 379-388.

2020

Choi, D., Batterink, L.J., Black, A.K., Paller, K.A., & Werker, J. F. (2020). Preverbal infants discover statistical word patterns at similar rates as adults: Evidence from neural entrainment. Psychological Science, 31, 1161-1173. *equal contributions

Batterink, L. (2020). Syllables in sync form a link: Neural phase-locking reflects word knowledge during language learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 1735–1748

2019

Batterink, L., Paller, K.A. & Reber, P.J. (2019). Understanding the neural bases of statistical and implicit learning. Topics in Cognitive Science. Part of Special Issue, “Two Approaches, One Phenomenon: Aligning Implicit Learning and Statistical Learning,” Padraic Monaghan and Patrick Rebuschat (Topic Editors).

Batterink, L. & Paller, K.A. (2019). Statistical learning of speech regularities can occur outside the focus of attention. Cortex, 115, 56-71.

2017

Batterink, L., Westerberg, C.E. & Paller, K. A. (2017). Vocabulary learning benefits from REM after slow-wave sleep. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, 102-113.

Batterink, L. (2017). Rapid statistical learning supporting word extraction from continuous speech. Psychological Science, 28, 921-928.

Batterink, L., & Paller, K. A. (2017). Online neural monitoring of statistical learning. Cortex, 90, 31-45.

Batterink, L. & Paller, K. A. (2017). Sleep-based memory processing facilitates grammatical generalization: Evidence from targeted memory reactivation. Brain and Language, 167, 83-93. Special Issue on Sleep and Language Learning.

2016

Batterink, L., Cheng, L., & Paller, K. A. (2016). Neural measures reveal implicit learning during language processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, 1636-1649.

Batterink, L., Creery, J. D., & Paller, K. A. (2016). Phase of spontaneous slow oscillations during sleep influences memory-related processing of auditory cues. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 1401-1409.

2015

Batterink, L., Reber, P. J., & Paller, K. A. (2015). Functional differences between statistical learning with and without explicit training. Learning and Memory, 22, 544-556.

Batterink, L., Reber, P. J., Neville, H., & Paller, K.A. (2015). Implicit and explicit contributions to statistical learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 83, 62-78.

2014 and earlier

Batterink, L., Oudiette, D., Reber, P. J., & Paller, K. A. (2014). Sleep facilitates learning a new linguistic rule. Neuropsychologia, 65, 169-179.

Batterink, L. & Neville, H.J. (2014). ERPs recorded during early second language exposure predict syntactic learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 2005-2020.

Batterink, L. & Neville, H.J. (2013). The human brain processes syntax in the absence of conscious awareness. Journal of Neuroscience, 33, 8528-8533.

Batterink, L. & Neville, H. (2013). Implicit and explicit second language training recruit common neural mechanisms for syntactic processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 936-951.

Batterink, L., Karns, C.M., & Neville, H. (2012). Dissociable mechanisms supporting awareness: The P300 and gamma in a linguistic attentional blink task. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 2733-2744.

Batterink, L., & Neville, H. (2011). Implicit and explicit mechanisms of word learning in a narrative context: An event-related potential study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3181-3196.

Batterink, L., Karns, C. M., Yamada, Y., & Neville, H. (2010). The role of awareness in semantic and syntactic processing: An ERP attentional blink study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2514-2529.

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