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  • On January 26th, 2010 at 4: 30 am, Dean Aslin wrote:

    Meat pies: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

  • Studies show that young people make their scholastic career decisions around sixth or seventh grade and the camps give them an opportunity to explore their interests, Aslin said.

    Archive 2006-07-01 ScienceWoman 2006

  • Saffran, Aslin and Newport (1996) found that 8 month old babies were able to learn where the word boundaries in an artificial language occurred after a mere 2 minutes 'exposure to a stream of artificial speech.

    Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

  • Actually, here is an interesting article by Newport and Aslin 2000 in which they report finding that adults and children perform roughly the same in word segmentation using only statistical mechanisms.

    We know toddlers can't count, but are they good at statistics? josh 2008

  • "They are making the inference - not consciously - that when someone has difficulty making a word they are most likely referring to an object that is rare," says Aslin.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • 'A toddler hears a lot of new words when listening to adults, and if his or her brain doesn't start processing until after the new word is spoken, learning becomes a much more difficult task,' says Richard Aslin … one of the study's authors.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2011

  • Jenny Saffran, Richard Aslin and their colleagues have demonstrated that babies learn a lot about the sounds of language that make up words by keeping track of the patterns of sounds that occur in sequence.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Art Markman 2011

  • 'A toddler hears a lot of new words when listening to adults, and if his or her brain doesn't start processing until after the new word is spoken, learning becomes a much more difficult task,' says Richard Aslin … one of the study's authors.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2011

  • Richard Aslin, one of the study's authors and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • With graduate student Celeste Kidd and post-doctoral researcher Katherine White, Aslin studied 48 toddlers ranging in age from 18 to 30 months.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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