Transitional Probabilities Outweigh Frequency of Occurrence in Statistical Learning of Simultaneously Presented Visual Shapes
Ansgar D Endress
Abstract:Statistical learning is a mechanism for detecting associations among co-occurring elements in many domains and species. A key controversy is whether it leads to memory for discrete chunks composed of these associated elements, or merely to pairwise associations among elements. Critical evidence for the mere-association view comes from the ``phantom-word'' phenomenon, where learners recognize statistically coherent but unattested items better than actually presented items with weaker internal associations, sugg… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.