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    "pk": 49267,
    "title": "Acoustic Cues Facilitate the Acquisition of Non-adjacent Dependencies in Sequences of Dynamic Object Transformation",
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    "abstract": "Human learners' ability to detect rule-governed elements plays an important role in cognitive functions. While extensive research on the acquisition of regularities among adjacent items has provided robust and reliable evidence, learning structured patterns among non-adjacent components-known as non-adjacent dependencies (NADs)-remains far more tentative and only occurs under specific conditions. A past study by Lu and Mintz (2023) found that human learners need more training exposure to detect NADs in visual sequences of object transformations compared to sequences of human actions, but is unclear why. Building on this work, we present a series of three experiments to investigate whether learning NADs from visual dynamic sequences can be enhanced by maintaining the identifiability of the object throughout its transformations. In addition, we explore the effect of providing auditory information-speech or pure tones-along with the visual object transformation sequences. Our findings demonstrate that (a) NAD learning succeeded when speech cues co-occurred and matched with NAD-type frames but failed in the absence of auditory cues (Experiment 1); (b) pure tones presented contingently with the visual sequences also facilitated NAD learning (Experiment 2); and (c) regardless of whether speech or tones were used as additional cues, adult learners were unable to detect NADs when the relationship between specific auditory stimuli and specific visual object transformation sequences was disrupted (Experiment 3).",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Pattern recognition; Statistical learning; Computer-based experiment"
        }
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jv6q420",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Zoey Zixi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lyu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Univeristy of Southern California",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Neshat",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Darvishi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Toby",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mintz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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