General cognitive principles for learning structure in time and space

Michael H. Goldstein*, Heidi R. Waterfall, Arnon Lotem, Joseph Y. Halpern, Jennifer A. Schwade, Luca Onnis, Shimon Edelman

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Abstract

How are hierarchically structured sequences of objects, events or actions learned from experience and represented in the brain? When several streams of regularities present themselves, which will be learned and which ignored? Can statistical regularities take effect on their own, or are additional factors such as behavioral outcomes expected to influence statistical learning? Answers to these questions are starting to emerge through a convergence of findings from naturalistic observations, behavioral experiments, neurobiological studies, and computational analyses and simulations. We propose that a small set of principles are at work in every situation that involves learning of structure from patterns of experience and outline a general framework that accounts for such learning.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)249-258
Number of pages10
JournalTrends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume14
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2010

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science FoundationBCS 0844015
Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchFA9550-08-1-0438, FA9550-09-1-0266
Army Research OfficeW911NF-09-1-0281
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentR03HD061524, IIS-0911036, ITR-0325453, IIS-0534064, IIS-0812045
Korea University
National Research Foundation of Korea
Ministry of Education, Science and TechnologyR31-2008-000-10008-0

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