Stimulus Modality and Perceptual Category Learning 1 Stimulus Modality Interacts with Category Structure in Perceptual Category Learning
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Two experiments were conducted that examined information-integration and rule-based category learning using stimuli that contained auditory and visual information. Results suggest that it is easier to perceptually integrate information within these sensory modalities than across modalities. Conversely, it is easier to perform a disjunctive rule-based task when information comes from different sensory modalities rather than the same modality. Quantitative model-based analyses suggested that the information-integration deficit for across-modality stimulus dimensions was due to an increase in the use of hypothesis-testing strategies to solve the task, and to an increase in random responding. The modeling also suggested that the acrossmodality advantage for disjunctive, rule-based category learning was due to a greater reliance on disjunctive hypothesis-testing strategies as opposed to uni-dimensional hypothesis-testing strategies and random responding.
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Stimulus modality interacts with category structure in perceptual category learning.
Two experiments were conducted that examined information integration and rule-based category learning, using stimuli that contained auditory and visual information. The results suggest that it is easier to perceptually integrate information within these sensory modalities than across modalities. Conversely, it is easier to perform a disjunctive rule-based task when information comes from differ...
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