The role of salience in the extraction of algebraic rules

The role of salience in the extraction of algebraic rules. Endress, A. D., Scholl, B. J, & Mehler, J. Journal of Experimental Psychology-general, 134(3):406-19, 2005.

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Recent research suggests that humans and other animals have sophisticated abilities to extract both statistical dependencies and rule-based regularities from sequences. Most of this research stresses the flexibility and generality of such processes. Here the authors take up an equally important project, namely, to explore the limits of such processes. As a case study for rule-based generalizations, the authors demonstrate that only repetition-based structures with repetitions at the edges of sequences (e.g., ABCDEFF but not ABCDDEF) can be reliably generalized, although token repetitions can easily be discriminated at both sequence edges and middles. This finding suggests limits on rule-based sequence learning and new interpretations of earlier work alleging rule learning in infants. Rather than implementing a computerlike, formal process that operates over all patterns equally well, rule-based learning may be a highly constrained and piecemeal process driven by perceptual primitives–specialized type operations that are highly sensitive to perceptual factors.

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  author       = {Ansgar D. Endress and Brian J Scholl and Jacques Mehler},
  journal      = {Journal of Experimental Psychology-general},
  title        = {The role of salience in the extraction of algebraic rules},
  year         = {2005},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {406-19},
  volume       = {134},
  abstract     = {Recent research suggests that humans and other animals have sophisticated abilities to extract both statistical dependencies and rule-based regularities from sequences. Most of this research stresses the flexibility and generality of such processes. Here the authors take up an equally important project, namely, to explore the limits of such processes. As a case study for rule-based generalizations, the authors demonstrate that only repetition-based structures with repetitions at the edges of sequences (e.g., ABCDEFF but not ABCDDEF) can be reliably generalized, although token repetitions can easily be discriminated at both sequence edges and middles. This finding suggests limits on rule-based sequence learning and new interpretations of earlier work alleging rule learning in infants. Rather than implementing a computerlike, formal process that operates over all patterns equally well, rule-based learning may be a highly constrained and piecemeal process driven by perceptual primitives--specialized type operations that are highly sensitive to perceptual factors.},
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  url_appendix = {Salience_and_Rule-Extraction-Appendi.pdf},
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