AUTHOR=Folstein Jonathan R., Gauthier Isabel , Palmeri Thomas J.

TITLE=Mere Exposure Alters Category Learning of Novel Objects

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 1 - 2010

YEAR=2010

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00040

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00040

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=We investigated how mere exposure to complex objects with correlated or uncorrelated object features affects later category learning of new objects not seen during exposure. Correlations among pre-exposed object dimensions influenced later category learning. Unlike other published studies, the collection of pre-exposed objects provided no information regarding the categories to be learned, ruling out unsupervised or incidental category learning during pre-exposure. Instead, results are interpreted with respect to statistical learning mechanisms, providing one of the first demonstrations of how statistical learning can influence visual object learning.