Statistical learning of action: The role of conditional probability

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 383-398

  Meyer, Meredith ^a   Baldwin, Dare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Action processing; Action segmentation; Conditional probability; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84856237318     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-011-0033-7     Document Type: Article

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