Statistical language acquisitionStatistical language acquisition, a branch of developmental psycholinguistics, studies the process by which humans develop the ability to perceive, produce, comprehend, and communicate with natural language in all of its aspects (phonological, syntactic, lexical, morphological, semantic) through the use of general learning mechanisms operating on statistical patterns in the linguistic input. Statistical learning acquisition claims that infants' language-learning is based on pattern perception rather than an innate biological grammar.
Noise (signal processing)In signal processing, noise is a general term for unwanted (and, in general, unknown) modifications that a signal may suffer during capture, storage, transmission, processing, or conversion. Sometimes the word is also used to mean signals that are random (unpredictable) and carry no useful information; even if they are not interfering with other signals or may have been introduced intentionally, as in comfort noise. Noise reduction, the recovery of the original signal from the noise-corrupted one, is a very common goal in the design of signal processing systems, especially filters.
Nativisme (psychologie)En psychologie, le nativisme est la théorie selon laquelle certaines compétences ou les habiletés sont des « innées » ou câblées dans le cerveau à la naissance. Cette théorie est en contraste avec l'empirisme, qui stipule que le cerveau a des capacités innées pour permettre l'apprentissage, mais ne contient pas de contenu inné en tant que tel (voir le débat inné versus acquis). Le nativisme a une histoire dans la philosophie. Schopenhauer (1788-1860) réduit le nombre de catégories innées à une seule catégorie, qui est la causalité.
