Testing the skill-based approach: Consolidation strategy impacts attentional blink performance.

ABSTRACT: Humans can learn simple new tasks very quickly. This ability suggests that people can reuse previously learned procedural knowledge when it applies to a new context. We have proposed a modeling approach based on this idea and used it to create a model of the attentional blink (AB). The main idea of the skill-based approach is that models are not created from scratch but, instead, built up from reusable pieces of procedural knowledge (skills). This approach not only provides an explanation for the fast learning of simple tasks but also shows much promise to improve certain aspects of cognitive modeling (e.g., robustness and generalizability). We performed two experiments, in order to collect empirical support for the model's prediction that the AB will disappear when the two targets are con

SUBMITTER: Hoekstra C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782399 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature