The automaticity of visual statistical learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 552-564

  Turk Browne, Nicholas B ^a   Jungé, Justin A ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit learning; Nonadjacent dependencies; Selective attention; Specificity; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; HUMAN; LEARNING; VISION;

ATTENTION; AUTOMATISM; HUMANS; LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28744439156     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.134.4.552     Document Type: Article

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