Domain generality vs . modality specificity : 2 The paradox of statistical learning
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Domain generality versus modality specificity: the paradox of statistical learning.
Statistical learning (SL) is typically considered to be a domain-general mechanism by which cognitive systems discover the underlying distributional properties of the input. However, recent studies examining whether there are commonalities in the learning of distributional information across different domains or modalities consistently reveal modality and stimulus specificity. Therefore, import...
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تاریخ انتشار 2014