Implicit learning and latent learning represent distinct cognitive mechanisms
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SUPPORTED
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Evidence from cognitive psychology and neuroscience supports the view that implicit learning and latent learning rely on distinct, unconscious, or incidental mechanisms that differ from deliberate, explicit learning processes.
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Curiosity, latent learning, and cognitive maps
2020 · cited by 1
Paper [2] discusses latent learning as an incidental, curiosity-driven process distinct from explicit reinforcement learning mechanisms, generating cognitive maps.
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Unlocking adults' implicit statistical learning by cognitive depletion.
2022 · cited by 0
Paper [4] demonstrates that implicit statistical learning is supported by distinct neural mechanisms that can be unlocked when mature cognitive control mechanisms are depleted.
Neurophysiological mechanisms of implicit and explicit memory in the process of consciousness.
2022 · cited by 0
Paper [10] highlights how implicit memory and learning processes operate via different neurophysiological pathways compared to conscious or explicit processes.