A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans.

PLoS Comput Biol · 2021 · PMC7845997 · PMID 33465081

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highly significantp < .0001actually significant

Note that the surprise fixed effect was already highly significant in the null model ( t (1043.0) = 8.72, p < .0001).

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marginally significantp = .082so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The main effect of sequence length was marginally significant ( F (1, 96.6) = 3.08, p = .082).

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barely statistically significantno p-value reported

Although we observed, contrary in the previous experiment, an effect of statistical learning (indexed by the level of surprise of deviant items), it was only barely statistically significant.

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