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How babies find words in a stream of sound: transitional probabilities
Babies hear speech as one unbroken smear, with no gaps between words, yet somehow they start picking out words long before they can say one. One clue sits in…
Why you forget most of it in days: Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve
In the 1880s Hermann Ebbinghaus learned lists of nonsense syllables, tested himself after delays from 20 minutes to 31 days, and drew the first forgetting…
Why Spanish sounds faster than Vietnamese yet says just as much
Listen to Spanish or Japanese and it seems to rush past; Vietnamese or Thai can sound almost unhurried. Yet when researchers timed 170 people reading the same…