TEX2022: Bringing together Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning

Session

Poster Session 1 (coffee break)

P1

Jul 19, 2022, 11:00 AM

Aula Magna (SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies)

17. Asymmetric learning of dynamic spatial regularities in visual search: facilitation of anticipated target locations, no suppression of predictable distractor locations

Hao Yu (Dept. Psychology, Allgemeine und Experimentelle Psychologie, LMU)

7/19/22, 11:00 AM

Poster

Static statistical regularities in the placement of targets and salient distractors within the search display can be learned and used to optimize attentional guidance. Whether statistical learning also extends to dynamic regularities governing the placement of targets and distractors on successive trials has been less investigated. Here, we applied the same dynamic cross-trial regularity...

22. Categorically perceiving vs. Categorizing while perceiving: The role of segments' recognition and lexical access while categorizing the pragmatic function of pitch movements in speech.

Alessandra Zappoli (University of Nova Gorica)

7/19/22, 11:00 AM

Poster

Speech perception studies have highlighted: i) auditory-articulatory mapping processes; ii) Categorical Perception (CP) (Liberman et al., 1967); iii) bottom-up formation of phonological categories through statistical learning; iv) top-down mechanisms shaping the perceptual space (Kuhl et al., 1992). Among several open questions, we focus on: i) the relation between speech perception features...

34. Statistical learning modulation through the variation of stimulus rhythmic structure.

Ireri Melissa Gómez Varela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

7/19/22, 11:00 AM

Poster

Statistical learning has been widely proposed in the literature as a fundamental mechanism underlying language acquisition. In this direction, statistical word form learning protocols have been used across different developmental stages, showing that even 11 month infants perform above chance. Specifically, this behavioral task consists of two phases. A learning phase, where participants...

12. The global and transitional probability of task-irrelevant dimensions impact behavior

Lori Holt (Carnegie Mellon University)

7/19/22, 11:00 AM

Poster

Organisms pick up on stimulus statistics along multiple perceptual dimensions. These statistics can be accumulated quickly, sensitively, and passively, and can even influence behavior in unrelated tasks. In the auditory domain, there is a great deal of evidence that listeners build up statistically-driven expectations of what they will hear. Despite such strong empirical demonstrations of...

26. The predictive power of intrinsic brain activity: theoretical perspectives, current investigations, and future goals

Anastasia Dimakou (Padova Neuroscience Center)

7/19/22, 11:00 AM

Poster

One of the most prominent theories in cognitive neuroscience states that brains are foretelling machines. In other words, in contrast to the classic view of the brain as a passive stimulus-response machine, it constantly generates predictions about future events. This is achieved through a generative process of inference based on the statistical regularities of the environment. Βy continuously...

8. The role of neural oscillations during trans-saccadic integration

Chiara Terzo (University of Florence, Italy)

7/19/22, 11:00 AM

Poster

The question how we perceive the world as continuous has been largely debated in neuroscience. Indeed, in every-day life, we constantly interact with the external environment by scanning it through eye movements. Saccadic eye movements are the major example of an abrupt change in visual perception caused by self-movements. While it is clear that self-movements challenge perceptual stability by...