Chunking by colors: Assessing discrete learning in a continuous serial reaction-time task

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 318-329

  Jiménez, Luis ^a   Méndez, Amavia ^a   Pasquali, Antoine ^b,c   Abrahamse, Elger ^d   Verwey, Willem ^d  

^a University of Santiago   (Spain)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c Adam Neurogenics ^*  (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chunk learning; Implicit learning; Sequence learning; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79958158722     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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