Does animacy affect visual statistical learning? Revisiting the effects of selective attention and animacy on visual

Jolene A Cox1,2, Yizhou Wu1, Anne M Aimola Davies1

  • 1School of Medicine and Psychology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
|April 24, 2023
PubMed
Summary

Animacy does not impact visual statistical learning. Selective attention enhances learning of attended information, but the presence of animate or inanimate objects in unattended streams does not alter learning outcomes.

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