Implicit Covariation Learning

Top-down Attentional Guidance Based on Implicit Learning of Visual Covariation

The visual environment is extremely rich and complex, producing information overload for the visual system. But the environment also embodies structure in the form of redundancies and regularities that may serve to reduce complexity. How do perceivers internalize this complex informational structure? We present new evidence of visual learning that illustrates how observers learn how objects and...

Implicit and Explicit Learning of a Covariation Across Visual Search Displays

The goal of this study was to extend prior reports of implicit learning in visual search (e.g., Chun & Jiang, 1999) by employing eye movement monitoring and reaction time measures to contrast implicit and explicit learning. Towards this end, participants’ eye movements were monitored as they performed a visual search task in the ‘change blindness’ flicker paradigm. In each trial, participants w...

Interpreting Covariation in Causal Structure Learning

Recent studies have shown that people use covariation information to infer causal structure. However, there is little information about how people derive causal directionality from covariation. The present study is designed to provide further evidence about the role of covariation in causal structure learning. In Experiment 1, where covariation between two variables was systematically manipulat...

Implicit learning.

Implicit learning is nonepisodic learning of complex information in an incidental manner, without awareness of what has been learned. Implicit learning experiments use 3 different stimulus structures (visual, sequence, and function) and 3 different dependent measures or response modalities (conceptual fluency, efficiency, and prediction and control). Implicit learning may require a certain mini...

Implicit learning