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In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society, 2002. p. 220-225. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
Sequential learning through touch, vision, and audition.
Chris M. Conway, & Morten H. Christiansen
Abstract
We investigated the extent to which touch, vision, and
audition are similar in the ways they mediate the
processing of statistical regularities within sequential
input. While previous research has examined
statistical/sequential learning in the visual and auditory
domains, few researchers have conducted rigorous
comparisons across sensory modalities; in particular, the
sense of touch has been virtually ignored in such
research. Our data reveal commonalities between the
ways in which these three modalities afford the learning
of sequential information. However, the data also
suggest that in terms of sequential learning, audition is
superior to the other two senses. We discuss these
findings in terms of whether statistical/sequential
learning is likely to consist of a single, unitary
mechanism or multiple, modality-constrained ones.
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