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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Computational linguistics

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  • Sequence learning is crucial for cognition.
  • Factors like transitional probability (TP), dependency type (adjacent/nonadjacent), and frequency influence learning.
  • The interplay and relative importance of these factors are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of TP and dependency on visual sequence learning.
  • To examine the interactive effects of TP, dependency, and frequency on verbal sequence learning.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Assessed TP and dependency effects on nonlinguistic visual sequences.
  • Experiment 2: Evaluated TP, dependency, and frequency interactions in verbal sequences (pseudo-words).

Main Results:

  • Higher performance in online learning was observed for first-order TPs in adjacent pairs across both experiments.
  • Experiment 2 revealed poorer offline recall for nonadjacent dependencies and low-frequency sequences.
  • Findings suggest differential utilization of factors in prediction versus memorization.

Conclusions:

  • First-order adjacent transitional probabilities are key for immediate sequence learning.
  • Nonadjacent dependencies and low sequence frequency pose challenges for memory recall.
  • The cognitive system employs distinct strategies for sequence prediction and memorization.