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Incidental binding between predictive relations.

Anna Leshinskaya¹, Mira Bajaj¹, Sharon L Thompson-Schill¹

¹Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America.

|March 4, 2020

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The mind links individual predictive relations learned together, influencing future learning. This associative binding helps build intuitive theories, even when relations are not consciously recalled.

Keywords:

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Learning and Memory
Associative Learning

Background:

Understanding predictive relations is fundamental to human learning.
Humans form intuitive theories comprising interconnected sets of relations, not just isolated facts.
The process by which incidentally learned relations become associated is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether incidentally learned predictive relations in the same context become associatively bound.
To determine if these bound relations spontaneously influence subsequent learning.
To explore the role of associative binding in the formation of intuitive theories.

Main Methods:

Participants engaged in a cover task while observing three event sequences with varying relational structures.
Two sequences established distinct pairs of strong predictive relations (R1 & R2, R3 & R4).
A third sequence presented either a consistent (R1 & R2) or inconsistent (R1 & R3) pairing of relations.

Main Results:

Learning of individual relations in the third sequence was significantly affected by the consistency of relation pairing.
Participants demonstrated an implicit expectation for relations to cohere, impacting their ability to learn new evidence.
This associative binding occurred despite participants' limited conscious recall of the learned relations.

Conclusions:

The human mind intrinsically associates related predictive information, forming coherent relational sets.
Associative binding of relational information is a spontaneous process that underpins the development of intuitive theories.
This mechanism allows for efficient integration of new knowledge and the formation of world models.