Dynamics of nonlinguistic statistical learning: From neural entrainment to the emergence of explicit knowledge.

ABSTRACT: Humans are highly attuned to patterns in the environment. This ability to detect environmental patterns, referred to as statistical learning, plays a key role in many diverse aspects of cognition. However, the spatiotemporal neural mechanisms underlying implicit statistical learning, and how these mechanisms may relate or give rise to explicit learning, remain poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated these different aspects of statistical learning by using an auditory nonlinguistic statistical learning paradigm combined with magnetoencephalography. Twenty-four healthy volunteers were exposed to structured and random tone sequences, and statistical learning was quantified by neural entrainment. Already early during exposure, participants showed strong entrainment to the embe

SUBMITTER: Moser J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8456692 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature