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Description: Congenital hearing loss offers a unique opportunity to examine the role of sound in the development of cognitive, social and linguistic systems. Statistical learning is considered a foundational cognitive mechanism through which young infants begin to construct a model of their environment. SL is especially important for language learning, allowing infants to recognize patterns within auditory streams and eventually predict upcoming sounds. The goal of this study was to investigate visual statistical learning in infants and toddlers with profound, sensorineural hearing loss, and compare learning performance to age-matched peers with normal hearing.