Task-relevant chunking in sequence learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 649-661

  Perlman, Amotz ^a   Pothos, Emmanuel M ^a   Edwards, Darren J ^a   Tzelgov, Joseph ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Chunking; Sequence learning; Unitization of responses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 77955538080     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017178     Document Type: Article

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