Category Learning – ESC Research

Tests of an Exemplar-Memory Model of Classification Learning in a High-Dimensional Natural-Science Category Domain

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Volume 147, Issue 3, 328-353 Abstract “Experiments were conducted in which novice participants learned to classify pictures of rocks into real-world, scientifically defined categories. The experiments manipulated the distribution of training instances during an initial study phase, and then tested for correct classification and generalization performance during a transfer […]

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One-back reinforcement dissociates implicit-procedural and explicit-declarative category learning

Memory & Cognition

Published in: Memory & Cognition, Volume 46, Issue 2, 261-273 Abstract “The debate over unitary/multiple category-learning utilities is reminiscent of debates about multiple memory systems and unitary/dual codes in knowledge representation. In categorization, researchers continue to seek paradigms to dissociate explicit learning processes (yielding verbalizable rules) from implicit learning processes (yielding stimulus–response associations that remain outside

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Organized simultaneous displays facilitate learning of complex natural science categories

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1987-1994 Abstract “Subjects learned to classify images of rocks into the categories igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. In accord with the real-world structure of these categories, the to-be-classified rocks in the experiments had a dispersed similarity structure. Our central hypothesis was that learning of these

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