More frequent, shorter trials enhance acquisition in a training session: There is a free lunch!

ABSTRACT: The strength of the learned relation between two events, a model for causal perception, has been found to depend on their overall statistical relation, and might be expected to be related to both training trial frequency and trial duration. We report five experiments using a rapid-trial streaming procedure containing Event 1-Event 2 pairings (A trials), Event 1-alone (B trials), Event 2-alone (C trials), and neither event (D trials), in which trial frequencies and durations were independently varied. Judgements of association increased with increasing frequencies of A trials and decreased with increasing frequencies of both B and C trials but showed little effect of frequency of D trials. Across five experiments, a weak but often significant effect of trial duration was also detected, whic

SUBMITTER: Murphy RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8897207 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature