Article: Executive attention and task switching in category learning: Evidence for stimulus-dependent representation

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

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

Article: Incremental category learning without external information: an algorithm for category-opening internal learning (COIL)
British Journal of Psychology;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......the past two decades the topic of category learning has received considerable attention...1975; Smith & Medin, 1981). Category learning as an area of study evolved from...g. squareness). In contrast, the category-learning approach extends consideration to...

Article: Learning categories by making predictions: An investigation of indirect category learning
Memory & Cognition;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......learned in many ways, but studies of category learning have generally focused on classification...eat. We refer to this as indirect category learning, because the task and the feedback...related to category membership, yet category learning was necessary for good performance...

Article: Action information from classification learning
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......not arbitrary actions used during category learning with objects might be incorporated...incorporated into the representations. Category learning research has focused on how people...associated with items during early category learning are incorporated into the item's...

Article: Distinct mechanisms in visual category learning
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......transition from the initial phase of category learning to expertise is poorly characterized...the neural mechanisms involved in category learning depend on the strategy utilized...during explicit than during implicit category learning (Aizenstein et al., 2000) and during...

Article: Prior knowledge enhances the category dimensionality effect
Memory & Cognition;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......knowledge and stimulus dimensionality on category learning was conducted. Subjects learned category...knowledge resonance, or KRES, model of category learning. Most category learning involves an interplay between prior knowledge...

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...

Article: Distinguishing the contributions of implicit and explicit processes to performance of the weather prediction task
Memory & Cognition;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......of the cognitive neuroscience of category learning frequently rely on probabilistic...systems supports declarative, explicit category learning,1 which requires active memorization...supports nondeclarative, implicit category learning, which develops in a gradual and...

Article: The divergent autoencoder (DIVA) model of category learning
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......novel theoretical approach to human category learning is proposed in which categories are...Kersten, 2003; Murphy, 2002). Models of category learning have gravitated toward the use of...proposed taxonomy of formal accounts of category learning, see Kruschke, 2005). The goal of...

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

Article: Dynamical trajectories in category learning
Perception and Psychophysics;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Category learning has traditionally been studied...identifiability problems. Traditionally, category learning has been investigated by examining...nonparametric method for investigating category learning, because no model needs to be specified...

Article: Models in search of a brain
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......relating an existing cognitive model of category learning to a learning circuit involving the...successful process model of human category learning to a learning circuit involving the...perirhinal, and prefrontal (PFC) cortices. Category learning offers a good test domain for our...