What you learn is more than what you see: what can sequencing effects tell us about inductive category learning?

ABSTRACT: Inductive category learning takes place across time. As such, it is not surprising that the sequence in which information is studied has an impact in what is learned and how efficient learning is. In this paper we review research on different learning sequences and how this impacts learning. We analyze different aspects of interleaved (frequent alternation between categories during study) and blocked study (infrequent alternation between categories during study) that might explain how and when one sequence of study results in improved learning. While these different sequences of study differ in the amount of temporal spacing and temporal juxtaposition between items of different categories, these aspects do not seem to account for the majority of the results available in the literature. How

SUBMITTER: Carvalho PF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4415402 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature