The Intermixed-Blocked Effect in Human Perceptual Learning Is Not the Consequence of Trial Spacing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 237-242

  Mitchell, Chris ^a   Nash, Scott ^a   Hall, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discrimination; memory; perceptual learning; spaced practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 38649092747     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.237     Document Type: Article

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