scholarly journals Nevertheless, it persists: Dimension-based statistical learning and normalization of speech impact different levels of perceptual processing

Cognition ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 104328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Lehet ◽  
Lori L. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Learning ◽  
Perceptual Processing ◽  
Different Levels

scholarly journals What drives individual differences in statistical learning? The role of perceptual fluency and familiarity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Perfors ◽  
Evan Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Statistical Learning ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Perceptual Processing ◽  
Perceptual Fluency ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Stimulus Familiarity ◽  
Different Levels

Humans have the ability to learn surprisingly complicated statistical information in avariety of modalities and situations, often based on relatively little input. These statistical learning (SL) skills appear to underlie many kinds of learning, but despite their ubiquity, we still do not fully understand precisely what SL is and what individual differences on SL tasks reflect. Here we present experimental work suggesting that at least some individual differences arise from variation in perceptual fluency — the ability to rapidly or efficiently code and remember the stimuli that statistical learning occurs over – and that perceptual fluency is driven at least in part by stimulus familiarity: performance on a standard SL task varies substantially within the same (visual) modality as a function of whether the stimuli involved are familiar or not, independent of stimulus complexity. Moreover, we find that test-retest correlations of performance in a statistical learning task using stimuli of the same level of familiarity (but distinct items) are stronger than correlations across the same task with stimuli of different levels of familiarity. Finally, we demonstrate that statistical learning performance is predicted by an independent measure of stimulus-specific perceptual fluency that contains no statistical learning component at all. Our results suggest that a key component of statistical learning performance may be related to stimulus-specific perceptual processing and familiarity.

scholarly journals Mini-Review: practice organization beyond memory processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 333-341
Author(s):  
Guilherme M. Lage ◽  
Lidiane A. Fernandes ◽  
Tércio Apolinário-Souza ◽  
Nathálya G. H. M. Nogueira ◽  
Bárbara P. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Motor Learning ◽  
Perceptual Processing ◽  
Memory Processes ◽  
Oculomotor Behavior ◽  
Practice Organization ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Electroencephalographic Activity ◽  
Variable Practice ◽  
Different Levels

Background: The benefits of variable practice in motor learning have been traditionally explained by the increased demand for memory processes induced by trial-to-trial changes. Recently, a new perspective associating increased demand for perception with variable practice has emerged. Aim: This revision aims to present and discuss the findings in this exciting topic newly opened. Results / Interpretation: In the second half of 2010’s, a number of studies have pointed out differences in perceptual processing when compared variable and repetitive practices. Different levels of (a) hemodynamic activation, (b) electroencephalographic activity, (c) neurochemical activity, and (d) oculomotor behavior have provided evidence that perceptual processes are affected differently by variable and repetitive practices.

scholarly journals Different levels of statistical learning - Hidden potentials of sequence learning tasks

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. e0221966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emese Szegedi-Hallgató ◽  
Karolina Janacsek ◽  
Dezso Nemeth
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Learning ◽  
Sequence Learning ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Different Levels

scholarly journals What drives individual differences in statistical learning? The role of perceptual fluency and familiarity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Perfors ◽  
Evan Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Statistical Learning ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Perceptual Fluency ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Different Levels

Humans have the ability to learn surprisingly complicated statistical information in a variety of modalities and situations, often based on relatively little input. These statistical learning (SL) skills appear to underlie many kinds of learning, but despite their ubiquity, we still do not fully understand precisely what SL is and what individual differences on SL tasks reflect. Here we present experimental work suggesting that at least some individual differences arise from variation in perceptual fluency — the ability to rapidly or efficiently code and remember the stimuli that statistical learning occurs over. We show that performance on a standard SL task varies substantially within the same (visual) modality as a function of whether the stimuli involved are familiar or not, independent of stimulus complexity. Moreover, we find that test-retest correlations of performance in a statistical learning task using stimuli of the same level of familiarity (but distinct items) are stronger than correlations across the same task with different levels of familiarity. Finally, we demonstrate that statistical learning performance is predicted by an independent measure of stimulus-specific perceptual fluency which contains no statistical learning component at all. Our results suggest that a key component of SL performance may be unrelated to either domain-specific statistical learning skills or modality-specific perceptual processing.

scholarly journals Reading fluency and statistical learning across modalities and domains: online and offline measures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ágnes Lukács ◽  
Dorottya Dobó ◽  
Ágnes Szőllősi ◽  
Németh Kornél ◽  
Krisztina Sára Lukics
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Learning ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Reading Difficulties ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Choice Task ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Forced Choice Task ◽  
Learning Impairment ◽  
Acoustic Domain ◽  
Different Levels

The vulnerability of statistical learning has been demonstrated in reading difficulties in both the visual and acoustic domains. We examined segmentation abilities of adolescents with three different levels of reading fluency in the acoustic verbal and visual nonverbal domains. We applied online target detection tasks, where the extent of learning is reflected in differences between reaction times to predictable versus unpredictable targets. Explicit judgments of well-formedness were also elicited in an offline two-alternative forced choice task. A significant online learning effect was observed in all groups in both domains, and online patterns were similar in participants with low, medium and high reading fluency. On the offline measures, all groups were at chance in the visual, but not the verbal domain. These findings suggest that there is no robust statistical learning impairment associated with reading problems either in the visual or the acoustic domain in adolescents. Results also imply that offline measures may mask learning abilities, and measuring learning online can provide a deeper understanding of the learning process and of its potential deficits.

scholarly journals A pragmatic approach to multi-modality and non-normality in fixation duration studies of cognitive processes

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chie Nakatani ◽  
Cees van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Perceptual Processing ◽  
Logistic Distribution ◽  
Processing Load ◽  
Task Control ◽  
Fixation Durations ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Mean And Variance ◽  
Different Levels

Interpreting eye-fixation durations in terms of cognitive processing load is complicated by the multimodality of their distribution. An important source of multimodality is the distinction between single and multiple fixations to the same object. Based on the distinction, we separated a log-transformed distribution made to an object in non-reading task. We could reasonably conclude that the separated distributions belong to the same, general logistic distribution, which has a finite population mean and variance. This allowed us to use the sample means as dependent variables in a parametric analysis. Six tasks were compared, which required different levels of post-perceptual processing. A no-task control condition was added to test for perceptual processing. Fixation durations differentiated task-specific perceptual, but not post-perceptual processing demands.

Dependence of Intergranular Fracture on Boundary Topography and Cohesion

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
J. E. Doherty ◽  
A. F. Giamei ◽  
B. H. Kear ◽  
C. W. Steinke
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Nickel Base Superalloy ◽  
Boundary Shear ◽  
Room Temperature Ductility ◽  
Solid Solution Matrix ◽  
Nickel Base ◽  
Solution Matrix ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Base Superalloy

Recently we have been investigating a class of nickel-base superalloys which possess substantial room temperature ductility. This improvement in ductility is directly related to improvements in grain boundary strength due to increased boundary cohesion through control of detrimental impurities and improved boundary shear strength by controlled grain boundary micros true tures.For these investigations an experimental nickel-base superalloy was doped with different levels of sulphur impurity. The micros tructure after a heat treatment of 1360°C for 2 hr, 1200°C for 16 hr consists of coherent precipitates of γ’ Ni3(Al,X) in a nickel solid solution matrix.

Immunoenzymatic demonstration of the simultaneous presence of transferrin, hemopexin and albumin in a same hepatocyte and their ultrastructural localization

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
M. Kraemer ◽  
J. Foucrier ◽  
J. Vassy ◽  
M.T. Chalumeau
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Proteins ◽  
Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Ultrastructural Localization ◽  
Carrier Proteins ◽  
Normal Cells ◽  
Adult Rat ◽  
Adult Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Monospecific Antisera ◽  
Different Levels

Some authors using immunofluorescent techniques had already suggested that some hepatocytes are able to synthetize several plasma proteins. In vitro studies on normal cells or on cells issued of murine hepatomas raise the same conclusion. These works could be indications of an hepatocyte functionnal non-specialization, meanwhile the authors never give direct topographic proofs suitable with this hypothesis.The use of immunoenzymatic techniques after obtention of monospecific antisera had seemed to us useful to bring forward a better knowledge of this problem. We have studied three carrier proteins (transferrin = Tf, hemopexin = Hx, albumin = Alb) operating at different levels in iron metabolism by demonstrating and localizing the adult rat hepatocytes involved in their synthesis.Immunological, histological and ultrastructural methods have been described in a previous work.

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