Categorical consistency of parity and magnitude facilitates implicit learning of color-number associations.

ABSTRACT: Perceiving high-frequency stimulus pairings may lead to implicit associative learning. Interestingly, category-level pairings, such as blue-even, may facilitate implicit learning relative to item-level pairings, such as blue-2 and blue-7. Such an advantage of categorical consistency has been previously demonstrated for associative learning with parity; here, we replicate this finding, and extend it to a second, more-often studied category, magnitude. In a parity experiment, participants reported the parity of single-digit numerals; numerals appeared in either blue or yellow, but throughout, participants were not given any information about color. In the novel magnitude experiment, the same participants reported the magnitude of single-digit numerals appearing in either purple or green. Ass

SUBMITTER: Retter TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12463211 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature