Article: Models in search of a brain

Incremental category learning without external information: ...
British Journal of Psychology;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... the past two decades the topic of category learning has received considerable attention ... Smith & Medin, 1981). Category learning as an area of study evolved from ... squareness). In contrast, the category-learning approach extends consideration to ...

Article: Dual-task interference in perceptual category ...
Memory & Cognition;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... demanding dual task on perceptual category learning was investigated. In Experiment ... Experiment 1, unidimensional rule-based category learning was disrupted more by the dual working ... than was information integration category learning. In addition, rule-based category ...

Article: The effects of positive versus negative feedback on ...
Perception and Psychophysics;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... number of studies have shown that in category learning, providing feedback about errors ... during information-integration category learning are reported. Information-integration ... been studied only in rule-based category learning tasks-that is, tasks in which ...

Article: Executive attention and task switching in category ...
Memory & Cognition;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... class of multiple-system models of category learning posits that within a single category-learning task people can learn to utilize ... response. Subjects were given a category learning task composed of one- and two ...

Article: Evidence for a procedural-learning-based system in perceptual ...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... in the information-integration category learning task. Model-based analyses indicated ... B training in the rule-based category learning tasks. These results both provide ... a multiple-systems approach to category learning in which one system is procedural ...

Article: Stimulus modality interacts with category structure in perceptual ...
Perception and Psychophysics;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... information integration and rule-based category learning, using stimuli that contained auditory ... advantage for disjunctive, rule-based category learning was due to a greater reliance on ... how these categories are learned. Category learning has been studied extensively, but ...

Article: The case for implicit category learning
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... criticized the evidence for implicit category learning on both methodological and theoretical ... counterevidence that supports implicit category learning. Psychologists and neuroscientists ... category. This is known as implicit category learning. These findings were important because ...