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A normative account of human temporal structure learning

2026-01-10

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People rapidly recalibrate their expectations about the world in the face of surprising observations. This recalibration should depend on the temporal structure of the environment, however how people should and do learn temporal structures remains unknown. To examine this gap, we developed a Bayesian model that infers temporal structure of the environment directly from observations and makes accurate predictions a...

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Literature Corpus work: e780c5ae-a457-5bb4-86b1-31c70824db2f
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.10.698785

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