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Associative Processes In Statistical Learning: Paradoxical Predictions Of The Past, Jennifer Patricia Provyn
Associative Processes In Statistical Learning: Paradoxical Predictions Of The Past, Jennifer Patricia Provyn
Psychology - Dissertations
The ability to process sequences of input and extract regularity across the distribution of input is fundamental for making predictions from the observed past to the future. Prediction is rooted in the extraction of both frequency- and conditional statistics from the distribution of inputs. For example, an animal hunting for food may consistently return to a particular area to hunt if relative to all other areas visited, that area has the highest frequency of prey. In contrast, humans asked to predict the next word in a sentence must make a prediction based upon higher-order regularities rather than simple frequency statistics …