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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 486-490Publisher
PSYCHONOMIC SOC INC
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.3.486
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD037082, HD-37082, R01 HD037082-01, R01 HD037082-04] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01 DC000167-26, R01 DC000167, R01 DC000167-25, DC-00167, R01 DC000167-23, R01 DC000167-24] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [T32 MH019942-07, T32-MH19942, T32 MH019942-06, T32 MH019942-08, T32 MH019942-14, T32 MH019942] Funding Source: Medline
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Previous work has demonstrated that adults are capable of learning patterned relationships among adjacent syllables or tones in continuous sequences but not among nonadjacent syllables. However, adults are capable of learning patterned relationships among nonadjacent elements (segments or tones) if those elements are perceptually similar. The present study significantly broadens the scope of this previous work by demonstrating that adults are capable of encoding the same types of structure among unfamiliar nonlinguistic and nonmusical elements but only after much more extensive exposure. We presented participants with continuous streams of nonlinguistic noises and tested their ability to recognize patterned relationships. Participants learned the patterns among noises within adjacent groups but not within nonadjacent groups unless a perceptual similarity cue was added. This result provides evidence both that statistical learning mechanisms empower adults to extract structure from nonlinguistic and nonmusical elements and that perceptual similarity eases constraints on nonadjacent pattern learning. Supplemental materials for this article can be downloaded from pbr.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.
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