ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Stress Boosts Statistical Learning but Not Sequence Learning
- Eszter Tóth-Fáber
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University - Eszter Tóth-Fáber
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University - Karolina Janacsek
Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Karolina Janacsek
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University - Ágnes Szőllősi
Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Ágnes Szőllősi
Budapest University of Technology and Economics - Szabolcs Kéri
Nyírő Gyula Hospital - Szabolcs Kéri
Budapest University of Technology and Economics - Dezső Németh
Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Dezső Németh
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
Abstract
Stress promotes a shift between multiple memory systems. We investigated the influence of acute stress on two sub-processes of procedural learning, explicit sequence learning and implicit statistical learning. Stress increased statistical learning, while deteriorated sequence learning.
Learning and Memory
