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Direct linkFountain, Stephen B.; Benson, Don M., Jr. – Learning and Motivation, 2006
Nonhuman animals, like humans, appear sensitive to the structure of the elements of sequences, perhaps even when the structure relates nonadjacent elements. In the present study, we examined the contribution of chunking, rule learning, and item memory when rats learned serial patterns composed of two interleaved subpatterns. In one group, the…
Descriptors: Memory, Animals, Serial Learning, Discrimination Learning
