Outlier responses reflect sensitivity to statistical structure in the human brain.

We constantly look for patterns in the environment that allow us to learn its key regularities. These regularities are fundamental in enabling us to make predictions about what is likely to happen next. The physiological study of regularity extraction has focused primarily on repetitive sequence-bas...

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Main Authors: Marta I Garrido, Maneesh Sahani, Raymond J Dolan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3610625?pdf=render