In the Third Lesson: Little Brains Wire Themselves to Their World in Lisa Feldman Barrett's book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain; Statistical learning refers to a theory of learning by which humans and non-human animals extract repeated patterns, or regularities from the sensory environment in an unconscious cognitive process. For example, early in postnatal development, infants exhibit a preference for language they are familiar hearing. How does statistical learning provide further evidence that little brains wire themselves to their world?