From Null to Bayes: Making implicit learning more explicit

When participants acquire new knowledge but lack conscious knowledge of the rules of the task, learning is claimed to be implicit. Implicit learning is arguably one of the most famous and most widely accepted null results; that is, it rests on the presumed absence of conscious knowledge. Null results are inherently problematic for conventional statistics: A recent meta analysis based on modern Bayesian statistics comes to intriguing conclusions.
Source: Psychonomic Society News - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news