Sequence learning — how we learn that one event or item follows another — has been studied mostly focusing on the effects of relatively simple relationships between elements. Using network science, a new study shows that in complex probabilistic sequences, some relationships are more easily learned than others.
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Desrochers, T.M. SRT is as easy as 12AKDB3. Nat Hum Behav 2, 889–890 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0473-6
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