Psychological and Brain Sciences Spiker Memorial LectureSeth Pollak, Vaughan Bascom Distinguished Professor and Developmental Area Group Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-MadisonWhat Is It About Early Emotional Experiences that Configures Children's Learning? (What Matters Most Might Not Be Obvious)Abstract: Discovering the processes through which early life experiences affect children’s development is critically important for developing prevention and interventions for...

Psychological and Brain Sciences Spiker Memorial LectureJenny Saffran, Rubenstein Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-MadisonLearning to Understand: Statistical Learning and LanguageAbstract: Infants rapidly develop from being naïve listeners, who experience language as a sea of sounds, to understanding their native language(s). How does this remarkable learning process unfold? One potentially useful source of information lies in the statistical patterns that...