Does chunking by color facilitate category learning?

Initial training with difficult items does not facilitate category learning.

In the phenomenon of transfer along a continuum (TAC), initial training on easy items facilitates later learning of a harder discrimination. TAC is a widely replicated cross-species phenomenon that is well predicted by certain kinds of associative theory (e.g., Sutherland & Mackintosh, 1971). A recent report of an approximately-opposite phenomenon (i.e. facilitation by initial training on hard ...

Does REM sleep facilitate learning?

Animation: Does It Facilitate Learning?

Graphics, such as maps, have been used since ancient times to portray things that are inherently visual. More recently, graphics such as diagrams and graphs, have been used to portray things that are metaphorically spatio-visual. The assumption is that graphics facilitate comprehension, learning, memory, and inference. Assumptions aside, research on static graphics has shown that only carefully...

Bayesian Approaches to Color Category Learning

One of the challenges that children face as they acquire a language is discovering how words are used to refer to different colors. While human languages demonstrate variation in how they partition the space of colors, there are also clear regularities in the kinds of systems of color categories that are used [1]. This raises two important questions: How might color categories be learned? And h...

When does feedback facilitate learning of words?

Some researchers have suggested that although feedback may enhance performance during associative learning, it does so at the expense of later retention. To examine this issue, subjects (N = 258) learned Luganda-English word pairs. After 2 initial exposures to the materials, subjects were tested on each item several times, with the presence and type of feedback varying between subjects. A final...