Are correlated streams of information necessary for implicit sequence learning?

We investigated whether the existence of correlated streams of information is necessary for incidental sequence learning to occur. We ran three separate experiments with a total of 201 undergraduate students. Each experiment had at least one condition with two streams of sequenced information that w...

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Published in:Acta psychologica 2010, Vol.133 (1), p.17-27
Main Authors: Meier, Beat, Cock, Josephine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Attention - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Decision Making - physiology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Implicit learning
Incidental learning
Learning
Learning. Memory
Male
Middle Aged
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Photic Stimulation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychomotor Performance - physiology
Reaction Time - physiology
Sequence learning
Serial Learning - physiology
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Summary:We investigated whether the existence of correlated streams of information is necessary for incidental sequence learning to occur. We ran three separate experiments with a total of 201 undergraduate students. Each experiment had at least one condition with two streams of sequenced information that were correlated. The correlations differed in terms of the kind of responses that were required, the kind of tasks and stimuli, the on-screen locations at which they occurred and how they were combined. Only in conditions with correlated sequences was implicit sequence learning found. Our results suggest that the presence of correlated streams of information may be the main pre-requisite for implicit sequence learning.
ISSN:0001-6918
1873-6297
DOI:10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.08.001