{"pk":28632,"title":"Statistical learning generates implicit conjunctive predictions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The cognitive system readily detects statistical relationships\nwhere the presence of an object predicts a specific outcome.\nWhat is less known is how the mind generates predictions\nwhen multiple objects predicting different outcomes are\npresent simultaneously. Here we examine the rules with which\npredictions are made in the presence of two objects that are\nassociated with two distinct outcomes. In three experiments,\nparticipants first implicitly learned that an object predicted a\nspecific target location in a visual search task. When two\nobjects predicting two different target locations were present\nsimultaneously, participants were reliably faster to find the\ntarget when it appeared in the conjunctive location than in\ndisjunctive locations. This was true even if participants were\nnot consciously aware of the association between the objects\nand target locations. The results suggest that in the presence of\nmultiple predictors, statistical learning generates implicit\nexpectations about the outcomes in a conjunctive fashion.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"implicit learning"},{"word":"regularities"},{"word":"conjunctive\ninference"},{"word":"visual search"},{"word":"attention"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0z60r185","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ru","middle_name":"Qi","last_name":"Yu","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":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28632/galley/18503/download/"}]}