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- Title
The procedural learning of action order is independent of temporal learning.
- Authors
Shin, Jacqueline C.
- Abstract
How does learning the timing of actions influence our ability to learn the order of actions? A sequence of responses cued by spatial stimuli was learned in a serial reaction time task where the response-to-stimulus intervals ( RSIs) were random, constant, or followed a fixed sequence. In this final sequenced-RSI condition, the response and RSI sequences were consistently matched in phase and could be integrated into a common sequence representation. The main result was that the response sequence was learned to a similar degree in all RSI training conditions, indicating that neither the predictability of RSIs nor the integration of the phase-matched response and timing sequences benefited learning of the response sequence. Nevertheless, temporal learning and integration speeded up performance without strengthening the representation of response order.
- Subjects
INFLUENCE; STIMULUS generalization; OPERANT conditioning; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Psychological Research, 2008, Vol 72, Issue 4, p376
- ISSN
0340-0727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00426-007-0115-5