Flexible belief updating drives the childhood advantage in statistical learning
Orsolya Pesthy, Eszter Tóth-Fáber, Cintia Nagy, Marton Nemeth, Karolina Janacsek, Dezső Németh
This study examines how children and adults update beliefs during statistical learning, finding children show more frequent prediction shifts and greater sensitivity to new evidence.
bioRxiv · Jun 30, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience