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...

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@boevesam.bsky.social
made this interactive visualisation to get a feeling for word predictability:
🔗 wordpredictabilityvisualized.vercel.app

Curious how these predictability indices were obtained? Find out in our new paper!
🔗 doi.org/10.3758/s134...

#Reading #LargeLanguageModels #MECO

🏅 💬 At the '22 edition of our conference, we launched the Early Career Talk, giving a platform to an outstanding early-career scientist. We are now seeking nominations for the Early Career Talk at the #IASL26 edition.

The deadline for nominations is August 15, 2025. Instructions in the thread.

Do we adapt when the structure of our environment changes?

Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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.

Our theoretical note 'Statistical Learning Subserves a Higher Purpose: Novelty Detection in an Information Foraging System' is now out in Psych Review. #StatisticalLearning

We argue that our environment (including our linguistic environment) is far from fixed: It's dynamic, and we interact with it.

🎄📄 #Preprint under the tree this year: @boevesam.bsky.social took us into the world of #LargeLanguageModels: "A Systematic Evaluation of Dutch Large Language Models’ Surprisal Estimates in Sentence, Paragraph, and Book Reading"
🔗 osf.io/preprints/os... #ReadingResearch

Thanks @sebraem.bsky.social, for inviting me as part of the 'Growing up in Science' series.

Sharing the often untold aspects of becoming and being a scientist (doubts, difficulties, rejections and imposter experiences) felt very meaningful.

Three years ago, I made singleton beer coasters as goodbye gifts for the Theeuweslab members @jthee.bsky.social.

A few weeks ago, I received this plant support in the brain shape of my lab logo from a PhD student.

Hard to convey how much I love nerdy gifts!

@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...