{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["3(3)"],"submitter":["Plate RC"],"pubmed_abstract":["Detecting regularities and extracting patterns is a vital skill to organize complex information in our environments. Statistical learning, a process where we detect regularities by attending to relationships between cues in our environment, contributes to knowledge acquisition across myriad domains. However, less is known about how emotional cues-specifically facial configurations of emotion-influence statistical learning. Here, we tested two pre-registered aims to advance knowledge about emotional signals and statistical learning: (1) we examined statistical learning in the context of emotional compared to non-emotional information, and (2) we assessed how emotional congruency (i.e., whether facial stimuli conveyed the same, or different emotions) influenced regularity extraction. We demo"],"journal":["Affective science"],"pagination":["662-672"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9537398"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Emotional Faces Facilitate Statistical Learning."],"pmcid":["PMC9537398"],"pubmed_authors":["Waller R","Schapiro AC","Plate RC"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Emotional Faces Facilitate Statistical Learning.","description":"Detecting regularities and extracting patterns is a vital skill to organize complex information in our environments. Statistical learning, a process where we detect regularities by attending to relationships between cues in our environment, contributes to knowledge acquisition across myriad domains. However, less is known about how emotional cues-specifically facial configurations of emotion-influence statistical learning. Here, we tested two pre-registered aims to advance knowledge about emotional signals and statistical learning: (1) we examined statistical learning in the context of emotional compared to non-emotional information, and (2) we assessed how emotional congruency (i.e., whether facial stimuli conveyed the same, or different emotions) influenced regularity extraction. We demo","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Sep","modification":"2025-04-25T20:19:44.881Z","creation":"2025-04-06T08:20:46.316Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9537398","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36385906"],"doi":["10.1007/s42761-022-00130-9"]}}