Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,[5] he graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in Psychology, in 1971.
[8] In 2017, Aslin and eight other plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Rochester for its handling of a sexual misconduct complaint.
In 2020, the university settled the case for $9.4 million without any admission of wrongdoing, but issued a statement thanking the plaintiffs for their efforts.
Later work, with collaborators Jenny Saffran and Elissa L. Newport addressed how infants segment words from continuous speech by tracking the co-occurrence statistics of the syllables.
[12] Some of his recent work has extended original findings about infants' ability to track environmental statistics in speech to the visual world.
Aslin has been recognized by a number of organizations for his theoretical and empirical contributions to the fields of cognitive science and developmental psychology.