Just Being Exposed to New Things Sets Off "Latent Learning" - Technology Networks

A new study is one of the first to provide experimental evidence that adults learn from incidental exposure to things that they know nothing about and aren’t even trying to understand.

Long before they enter a classroom, people learn to identify commonplace objects like a dog and a chair just by encountering them in everyday life, with no intent to learn about what they are. A new… [+5271 chars]

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