Visual Implicit Learning

• Does ability to learn implicit dependencies correlate with ability to correctly predict the next word in speech?
• Participants saw a sequence of colors light up on screen
• They then had to reproduce it by clicking on the same sequence
• Auditory Only Sentence Perception
• 25 highly predictable and 25 zero-predictability sentences
• acoustically degraded by processing them with a sinewave vocoder to 6 channels
• Ability to pick up/learn statistical dependencies seems almost to be a new cognitive function
• Shows a potential connection between sequence learning and language modelling ability
• Learning simple dependencies is not so difficult it seems. But natural language has many dependencies at a distance