Learning Painting Styles: Spacing is Advantageous when it Promotes Discriminative Contrast

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 97-103

  Kang, Sean H K ^a   Pashler, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed practice; Inductive learning; Perceptual category learning; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PAINTING; PERFORMING ARTIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84856000061     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1801     Document Type: Article

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