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The order of stimuli matters when learning second-order transitional probabilities.
| Τίτλος: | The order of stimuli matters when learning second-order transitional probabilities. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Lazartigues L; University Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193 - SCALab - Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, F-59000, Lille, France. Laura.lazartigues@univ-lille.fr., Mathy F; Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL, UMR 7320), Université Côte d'Azur and CNRS, Nice, France., Aguilar C; Therapixel, Nice, France., Lavigne F; Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL, UMR 7320), Université Côte d'Azur and CNRS, Nice, France. |
| Πηγή: | Learning & behavior [Learn Behav] 2025 Jun; Vol. 53 (2), pp. 183-193. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 26. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Springer Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101155056 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1543-4508 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 15434494 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Learn Behav Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: 2011- : New York : Springer Original Publication: Austin, Tex. : Psychonomic Society, c2003- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Probability Learning* , Serial Learning*, Reaction Time/physiology ; Psychomotor Performance/physiology ; Humans ; Male ; Female ; Young Adult ; Adult ; Photic Stimulation ; Probability |
| Περίληψη: | The order of stimuli within sequences and the transitional probabilities (TPs) it generates are central information in sequence processing. However, less is known about what type of information and how it is extracted by general learning mechanisms. The present study focused on statistical learning of second-order TPs. Second-order TPs are involved when only the combination of two stimuli predicts the third. In a first experiment, TPs depended crucially on the order of presentation of a pair INLINEMATH , which led to different predictions depending on the order of the stimuli (i.e., ABC vs. BAF). Eight visuomotor sequences governed by second-order TPs were used and response times (RTs) were recorded for each transition. The task included a learning phase followed by a switch phase during which the second-order TP were reversed (e.g., the sequences ABC and BAF became respectively ABF and BAC). A decrease of RTs between the second and the third stimulus during the learning phase and an increase of RTs during the switch phase suggested that variations of orders within second-order TPs could be learned. Further analyses, however, indicated that such learning was difficult for most participants. A second experiment showed that the difficulty of learning was not solely due to the difficulty to pick up the effect of order of presentation, but that learning second-order transitional probabilities in addition to order would be the main obstacle. These experiments suggest that statistical learning is capable of learning complex associations, even if this remains a challenge for human cognition. (© 2024. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.) |
| Competing Interests: | Declarations. Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest to disclose. Ethics Approval: The experiment was approved by the local ethics committee (CERNI) of the Université Côte d’Azur. Consent to Participate: The experiment was conducted with the informed consent of the participants. Consent for Publication: Participants signed informed consent regarding publishing their data. |
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| Grant Information: | ANR-15-IDEX-01 Agence Nationale de la Recherche |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Prediction; Second-order; Sequence learning; Statistical learning |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20240926 Date Completed: 20250521 Latest Revision: 20250521 |
| Update Code: | 20260130 |
| DOI: | 10.3758/s13420-024-00646-z |
| PMID: | 39327382 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1543-4508 |
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| DOI: | 10.3758/s13420-024-00646-z |