Learning, awareness, and instruction: Subjective contingency awareness does matter in the colour-word contingency learning paradigm

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1754-1768

  Schmidt, James R ^a   De Houwer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contingency awareness; Contingency learning; Explicit learning; False instructions; Implicit learning; Instruction; Moderation; Objective awareness; Response times; Subjective awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; COLOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; OBJECTIVE AWARENESS; RESPONSE TIME; SUBJECTIVE AWARENESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; COLOR; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TEACHING;

EID: 84869843621     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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