In addition to behavioral analyses of these learning strategies, Kirchhoff recorded the participants' brain activity patterns during learning using functional MRI.

Machine-learning algorithms use statistics to find patterns in massive* amounts of data. And data, here, encompasses a lot of things—numbers, words, images, clicks, what have you.

Implicit pattern learning predicts individual differences in belief in God in the United States and Afghanistan. Nature Communications , 2020; 11: 4503 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18362-3 Cite This Page : ...