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    "pk": 26231,
    "title": "Statistical learning creates novel object associations via transitive relations",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "A remarkable ability of the cognitive system is the creation of\nnew knowledge based on prior experiences. What cognitive\nmechanisms support such knowledge creation? We propose\nthat statistical learning not only extracts existing relationships\nbetween objects, but also generates new associations between\nobjects that have never been directly associated. Participants\nviewed a continuous color sequence consisting of base pairs\n(e.g., A-B, B-C), and learned these pairs. Importantly, they also\nsuccessfully learned a novel pair (A-C) that could only be\nassociated through transitive relations between the base pairs\n(Exp1). This learning, however, was not successful with three\nbase pairs (e.g., learning A-D from A-B, B-C, C-D), revealing\na limit in this transitive process (Exp2). Beyond temporal\nassociations, novel transitive associations can also be formed\nacross categorical hierarchies (Exp3), but with limits\n(Exp4&5). The current findings suggest that statistical learning\nprovides an efficient scaffold through which new object\nassociations are transitively created.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Statistical learning; transitive inference; implicit\nassociations; regularities; categorical hierarchy"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hc2n88z",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yu",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Luo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of British Columbia",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jiaying",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zhao",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of British Columbia",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}