Statistical learning subserves a higher purpose: Novelty detection in an information foraging system.
Ram Frost, Louisa Bogaerts, Arthur G. Samuel, James S. Magnuson, Lori L. Holt, Morten H. Christiansen · Psychological Review · 2025
(IF) system. IF aims to detect and assimilate novel recurrent patterns in the input that deviate from randomness, for which SL supplies a baseline. The broad implications of this viewpoint and their relevance to recent debates in cognitive neuroscience are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).