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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Learning Sciences

Background:

  • Statistical learning (SL) is typically considered a fundamental and effortless cognitive process.
  • The resource demands of spatial statistical learning (SSL) and its capacity for parallel processing remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether spatial SL requires cognitive resources.
  • To determine if spatial SL can be impaired by concurrent task demands.

Main Methods:

  • Experiments 1-4 utilized standard laboratory paradigms to assess spatial SL under varying concurrent cognitive and memory loads.
  • Concurrent demands included high- and low-cognitive load tasks, spatial memory load, and a minimal-demand dot-probe task.

Main Results:

  • High-load cognitive and spatial memory demands during familiarization abolished spatial SL.
  • Even low-load conditions significantly reduced learning compared to a no-load condition.
  • Minimal attentional demands from a dot-probe task also impaired spatial SL.

Conclusions:

  • Spatial SL is resource-dependent and is significantly impaired by concurrent task demands.
  • This challenges the view of spatial SL as an automatic and implicit process.
  • The findings suggest spatial learning is less effortless than previously assumed.