Saffran et al. (1996) found that eight-month-old infants listened to _____ test stimuli longer, providing evidence that infants are capable of _____ learning.

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Saffran et al. (1996) used part-word stimuli to test whether infants were capable of statistical learning, which refers to the ability to detect statistical regularities in the input. Specifically, they presented a continuous stream of nonsense syllables, in which certain syllable sequences appeared more frequently than others. Infants listened longer to novel syllable sequences that violated the statistical regularities, indicating that they had learned the underlying statistical structure of the input. This provides evidence that infants are capable of statistical learning.

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