Domain generality versus modality specificity: The paradox of statistical learning

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 117-125

  Frost, Ram ^a,b,c   Armstrong, Blair C ^c   Siegelman, Noam ^a   Christiansen, Morten H ^b,d,e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Domain general mechanisms; Modality specificity; Neurobiologically plausible models; Statistical learning; Stimulus specificity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN;

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DISTRIBUTIONAL INFORMATION; DISTRIBUTIONAL PROPERTY; MODALITY SPECIFICITY; PLAUSIBLE MODEL; STATISTICAL LEARNING; STIMULUS SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DORSAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NEUROIMAGING; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPEECH; STATISTICAL LEARNING; STIMULUS; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING;

EID: 84924669754     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.12.010     Document Type: Review

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