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Article: Distinguishing the contributions of implicit and explicit processes to performance of the weather prediction task
- Article from:
- Memory & Cognition
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Psychonomic Society, Inc. Mar 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Examinations of the cognitive neuroscience of category learning frequently rely on probabilistic classification-learning tasks-namely, the weather prediction task (WPT)-to study the neural mechanisms of implicit learning. Accumulating evidence suggests that the task also depends on explicit-learn
ing processes. The present investigation manipulated the WPT to assess the specific contributions of implicit- and explicit-learning processes to performance, with a particular focus on how the contributions of these processes change as the task progresses. In Experiment 1, a manipulation designed to disrupt implicit-learning processes had no effect on classification accuracy or the distribution of ...