Dissociable behavioural outcomes of visual statistical learning.

ABSTRACT: Statistical learning refers to the extraction of probabilistic relationships between stimuli and is increasingly used as a method to understand learning processes. However, numerous cognitive processes are sensitive to the statistical relationships between stimuli and any one measure of learning may conflate these processes; to date little research has focused on differentiating these processes. To understand how multiple processes underlie statistical learning, here we compared, within the same study, operational measures of learning from different tasks that may be differentially sensitive to these processes. In Experiment 1, participants were visually exposed to temporal regularities embedded in a stream of shapes. Their task was to periodically detect whether a shape, whose contrast wa

SUBMITTER: Bays BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4963038 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature