Topic: X-detection

Understanding the mechanisms of statistical learning, where organisms infer structure from sensory observations without explicit instruction, is crucial in comprehending how the brain processes and responds to complex and dynamic environments. This work explores the innate capabilities of mice to discern environmental regularities, focusing on the role of the hippocampus in this unsupervised learning process. The study leverages a novel comparative behavioural paradigm, termed X-detection, to manipulate the statistics of embedded tone sequences (patterns) in an auditory cover task: subjects s

Understanding the mechanisms of statistical learning, where organisms infer structure from sensory observations without explicit instruction, is crucial in comprehending how the brain processes and responds to complex environments. This work explores the innate capabilities of both humans and mice to discern environmental regularities, focusing on the role of the hippocampus in this implicit learning processes. We use pupillometry to measure whether animals can detect and track patterns in rapidly unfolding sounds. The study leverages a novel comparative behavioural paradigm, termed X-detectio