Learning Continuity Violations (prediction experiment)
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- Bai, Dawei; Falck, Andreas; Strickland, Brent
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- FOS: Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Adult humans expect physical objects to behave under the principle of continuity: objects cannot disappear into thin air or teleport from one location to another. This prior might make it hard to learn statistical regularities of an object violating the principle. In this experiment we investigate people’s resistance to learning regular continuity violations.