{"pk":25678,"title":"Is statistical learning trainable?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Statistical learning (SL) is the ability to implicitly extract\nregularities in the environment, and likely supports various\nhigher-order behaviors, from language to music and vision.\nWhile specific patterns experience are likely to influence SL\noutcomes, this ability is tacitly conceptualized as a fixed\nconstruct, and few studies to date have investigated how\nexperience may shape statistical learning.\nWe report one experiment that directly tested whether SL\ncan be modulated by previous experience. We used a prepost\ntreatment design allowing us to pinpoint what specific\naspects of “previous experience” matter for SL. The results\nshow that performance on an artificial grammar learning task\nat post-test depends on whether the grammar to be learned at\npost-test matches the underlying grammar structures learned\nduring treatment. Our study is the first to adopt a pre-post test\ndesign to directly modulate the effects of learning on learning\nitself.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"experience; implicit learning; pre-post test\ndesign; sequential learning; statistical learning; statistical\ntraining; transition probabilities."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/93z978wt","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Luca","middle_name":"","last_name":"Onnis","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nanyang Technological University","department":""},{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lou-Magnuson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Nanyang Technological University","department":""},{"first_name":"Hongoak","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yun","name_suffix":"","institution":"Konkuk University","department":""},{"first_name":"Erik","middle_name":"","last_name":"Thiessen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25678/galley/15302/download/"}]}