Statistical learning performance is impacted by a previous learning experience: A predictive eye-movement study

Statistical learning (SL), the ability to extract recurrent patterns from sensory input, plays an important role in a range of cognitive functions. While much research has studied SL in stable artificial environments, natural inputs are rarely fixed: regularities are often probabilistic and continuously changing. A key question, therefore, is how SL unfolds under such conditions and to what extent it is shaped by learners' previous experiences. In the present study, we asked how trajectories of