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Serial reaction time (SRT) task studies have established that people can implicitly learn sequential contingencies as complex as fourth-order probabilities. The present study examined people’s ability to learn fifth-order (Experiment 1) and sixth-order (Experiment 2) probabilities. Remarkably, people learned fifth- and sixth-order probabilities. This suggests that the implicit sequence learning mechanism can operate over a range of at least seven sequence elements.
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This research was supported by funding from Morehead State University’s Research and Creative Productions Committee.
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Remillard, G. Implicit learning of fifth- and sixth-order sequential probabilities. Memory & Cognition 38, 905–915 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.38.7.905
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