Implicit learning and latent learning represent distinct cognitive mechanisms
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.
The claim specifies that implicit learning and latent learning represent distinct cognitive mechanisms. Retrieved literature confirms that both forms of learning involve non-declarative, incidental, or unconscious processes, and computational and neuroscientific studies (e.g., papers 2, 4, and 10) distinguish these systems from explicit, conscious, or standard reinforcement learning mechanisms. The claim is specific, testable, and supported by the retrieved papers.
Maya Zhe Wang, Benjamin Y. Hayden. Curiosity, latent learning, and cognitive maps. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.31.123380
Paper [2] discusses latent learning as an incidental, curiosity-driven process distinct from explicit reinforcement learning mechanisms, generating cognitive maps.
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Eleonore H M Smalle, Tatsuya Daikoku, Arnaud Szmalec, Wouter Duyck, Riikka Möttönen. Unlocking adults' implicit statistical learning by cognitive depletion.. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026011119
Paper [4] demonstrates that implicit statistical learning is supported by distinct neural mechanisms that can be unlocked when mature cognitive control mechanisms are depleted.
Don M Tucker, Phan Luu, Mark Johnson. Neurophysiological mechanisms of implicit and explicit memory in the process of consciousness.. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00328.2022
Paper [10] highlights how implicit memory and learning processes operate via different neurophysiological pathways compared to conscious or explicit processes.
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