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Lum, Jarrad A. G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
This study examined the changes in saccadic amplitude associated with learning a visual sequence. The oculomotor system gradually adjusts saccadic parameters when tracking a visual stimulus, which has a predictable trajectory. In these contexts, the change in saccadic amplitudes leads to predictive fixations. That is, fixations made to a position…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Sequential Learning, Reaction Time, Eye Movements
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Mundorf, Abigail M. D.; Lazarus, Linh T. T.; Uitvlugt, Mitchell G.; Healey, M. Karl – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
The temporal contiguity effect (TCE) is the tendency for the recall of one event to cue recall of other events originally experienced nearby in time. Retrieved context theory proposes that the TCE results from fundamental properties of episodic memory: binding of events to a drifting context representation during encoding and the reinstatement of…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Correlation, Recall (Psychology), Cues
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Meinhardt, Martin J.; Bell, Raoul; Buchner, Axel; Röer, Jan P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
A large body of evidence shows an animacy effect on memory in that animate entities are better remembered than inanimate ones. Yet, the reason for this mnemonic prioritization remains unclear. In the survival processing literature, the assumption that richness of encoding is responsible for adaptive memory benefits has received substantial…
Descriptors: Memory, Prediction, Language Processing, Associative Learning
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Prince, Jon B.; Stevens, Catherine J.; Jones, Mari Riess; Tillmann, Barbara – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Despite the empirical evidence for the power of the cognitive capacity of implicit learning of structures and regularities in several modalities and materials, it remains controversial whether implicit learning extends to the learning of temporal structures and regularities. We investigated whether (a) an artificial grammar can be learned equally…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Grammar, Task Analysis
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Church, Barbara A.; Mercado, Eduardo, III; Wisniewski, Matthew G.; Liu, Estella H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Training can improve perceptual sensitivities. We examined whether the temporal dynamics and the incidental versus intentional nature of training are important. Within the context of a birdsong rate discrimination task, we examined whether the sequencing of pretesting exposure to the stimuli mattered. Easy-to-hard (progressive) sequencing of…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Testing, Auditory Training, Auditory Stimuli
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Freedberg, Michael; Schacherer, Jonathan; Hazeltine, Eliot – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Reward has been shown to change behavior as a result of incentive learning (by motivating the individual to increase their effort) and instrumental learning (by increasing the frequency of a particular behavior). However, Palminteri et al. (2011) demonstrated that reward can also improve the incidental learning of a motor skill even when…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Associative Learning, Rewards, Incentives
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Nosofsky, Robert M.; Denton, Stephen E.; Zaki, Safa R.; Murphy-Knudsen, Anne F.; Unverzagt, Frederick W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Studies of incidental category learning support the hypothesis of an implicit prototype-extraction system that is distinct from explicit memory (Smith, 2008). In those studies, patients with explicit-memory impairments due to damage to the medial-temporal lobe performed normally in implicit categorization tasks (Bozoki, Grossman, & Smith, 2006;…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Classification, Patients, Short Term Memory
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Runger, Dennis; Frensch, Peter A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Research on incidental sequence learning typically is concerned with the characteristics of implicit or nonconscious learning. In this article, the authors aim to elucidate the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to the generation of explicit, reportable sequence knowledge. According to the unexpected-event hypothesis (P. A. Frensch, H. Haider,…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Incidental Learning, Sequential Learning, Learning Processes