Transfer of strategic task components across unique tasks that share some common structures.

ABSTRACT: Flexible, adaptive behaviour depends on the application of prior learning to novel contexts (transfer). Transfer can take many forms, but the focus of the present study was on "task schemas"-learning strategies that guide the earliest stages of engaging in a novel task. The central aim was to examine the architecture of task schemas and determine whether strategic task components can expedite learning novel tasks that share some structural components with the training tasks. Groups of participants across two experiments were exposed to different training regimes centred around multiple unique tasks that shared some/all/none of the structural task components (the kinds of stimuli, classifications, and/or responses) but none of the surface features (the specific stimuli, classifications, and

SUBMITTER: Longman CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11457462 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature