The transfer of category knowledge by macaques (Macaca mulatta) and humans (Homo sapiens).

ABSTRACT: Cognitive psychologists distinguish implicit, procedural category learning (stimulus-response associations learned outside declarative cognition) from explicit-declarative category learning (conscious category rules). These systems are dissociated by category learning tasks with either a multidimensional, information-integration (II) solution or a unidimensional, rule-based (RB) solution. In the present experiments, humans and two monkeys learned II and RB category tasks fostering implicit and explicit learning, respectively. Then they received occasional transfer trials-never directly reinforced-drawn from untrained regions of the stimulus space. We hypothesized that implicit-procedural category learning-allied to associative learning-would transfer weakly because it is yoked to the train

SUBMITTER: Zakrzewski AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5814353 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature