Speech segmentation is fundamental to language acquisition and supported by statistical learning (SL). Research on SL is inconclusive as to whether it can occur outside the scope of attention and whether SL is impaired in individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Furthermore, individual differences in SL are hypothesized to be influenced by other cognitive abilities such as musical rhythmic ability (RA) and phonological working memory (WM), which previous literature…
