The role of cross-modal associations in statistical learning. Glicksohn, A. & Cohen, A. Psychon Bull Rev, 20(6):1161–1169, 2013.
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Our environment is richly structured, with objects producing correlated information within and across sensory modalities. A prominent challenge faced by our perceptual system is to learn such regularities. Here, we examined statistical learning and addressed learners' ability to track transitional probabilities between elements in the auditory and visual modalities. Specifically, we investigated whether cross-modal information affects statistical learning within a single modality. Participants were familiarized with a statistically structured modality (e.g., either audition or vision) accompanied by different types of cues in a second modality (e.g., vision or audition). The results revealed that statistical learning within either modality is affected by cross-modal information, with learning being enhanced or reduced according to the type of cue provided in the second modality.
@Article{Glicksohn2013,
  author      = {Glicksohn, Arit and Cohen, Asher},
  journal     = {Psychon Bull Rev},
  title       = {The role of cross-modal associations in statistical learning.},
  year        = {2013},
  number      = {6},
  pages       = {1161--1169},
  volume      = {20},
  abstract    = {Our environment is richly structured, with objects producing correlated
	information within and across sensory modalities. A prominent challenge
	faced by our perceptual system is to learn such regularities. Here,
	we examined statistical learning and addressed learners' ability
	to track transitional probabilities between elements in the auditory
	and visual modalities. Specifically, we investigated whether cross-modal
	information affects statistical learning within a single modality.
	Participants were familiarized with a statistically structured modality
	(e.g., either audition or vision) accompanied by different types
	of cues in a second modality (e.g., vision or audition). The results
	revealed that statistical learning within either modality is affected
	by cross-modal information, with learning being enhanced or reduced
	according to the type of cue provided in the second modality.},
  doi         = {10.3758/s13423-013-0458-4},
  keywords    = {Auditory Perception, physiology; Cues; Humans; Learning, physiology; Probability Learning; Visual Perception, physiology},
  language    = {eng},
  medline-pst = {ppublish},
  pmid        = {23716019},
  school      = {Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel, arit.glicksohn@mail.huji.ac.il.},
  timestamp   = {2016.04.12},
}

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