Is Sequential Knowledge Essentially Statistical in Nature?
Fu Qiufang, Institute of Psychology, CAS Sun Huiming, Institute of Psychology, CAS Zoltan Dienes, University of Sussex Fu Xiaolan, Institute of Psychology, CAS fuqf@psych.ac.cn Sunday, June 7th, 17:30–19:30: Poster No. 114 We investigated whether the sequential knowledge acquired in sequence learning is essentially statistical in nature, as many have argued, or can include more abstract properties, and whether such knowledge can be unconscious. We adopted three types of stimuli in probabilistic sequence learning. Compared with the standard stimuli that followed a second order conditional (SOC) sequence, transfer stimuli followed a different SOC sequence (same abstract properties, different n-grams); deviant stimuli followed neither SOC sequence (both abstract properties and n-grams different), which contained mainly runs and alternations. The three types of stimuli all appeared in each block. The probability for standard stimuli was .833 or .667 depending on experiments and correspondi
