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SUBMITTER: Tran R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5579092 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tran Randy R Vul Edward E Pashler Harold H
Royal Society open science 20170802 8
The idea that people learn detailed probabilistic generative models of the environments they interact with is intuitively appealing, and has received support from recent studies of implicit knowledge acquired in daily life. The goal of this study was to see whether people efficiently induce a probability distribution based upon incidental exposure to an unknown generative process. Subjects played a 'whack-a-mole' game in which they attempted to click on objects appearing briefly, one at a time o ...[more]