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Roberts, Roberta D.; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The ability to report the temporal order of 2 tactile stimuli (1 applied to each hand) has been shown to decline when the arms are crossed over compared with when they are uncrossed. However, these effects have only been measured when temporal order was reported by stimulus location. It is unknown whether this spatial manipulation of the body…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Spatial Ability, Human Body, Human Posture
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Carpentier, Franck; Smeets, Paul M.; Barnes-Holmes, Dermot – Psychological Record, 2004
Previous studies have shown that after being trained on A-B and A-C match-to-sample tasks, adults match not only same-class B and C stimuli (equivalence) but also BC compounds with same-class elements and with different-class elements (BC-BC). The assumption was that the BC-BC performances are based on matching equivalence and nonequivalence…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Discrimination Learning, Visual Discrimination, Logical Thinking
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Knight, G. William; Guenzel, Pamela – Journal of Dental Education, 1990
An experimental group (n=6) of student dentists received discrimination training and self-evaluation exercises on 4 waxing projects and 4 handpiece projects over 13 hours. An equivalent "conventional" group (n=7) received verbal feedback with models on 7 waxing projects over 13 hours. The experimental group outperformed the conventional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dental Schools, Dentistry, Discrimination Learning