The work outlined in this paper explores the influence of prior knowledge and related experience (held in the form of weights) on the generalisation performance of connectionist models. Networks were trained on simple classification and associated tasks. Results regarding the transfer of related experience between networks trained using back-propagation and recurrent networks performing sequenc...

religious experience is a novel issue in the field of theology and the philosophy of religion; it denotes god’s manifestationin the experiencer, which comes about in certain feelings and states. these states of the experiencer may sometimes be considered as a confirmation of his innate disposition, or the religious experience and proof of human nature maybe hastily deemed the same. however, the...

We investigated whether and how prior knowledge activation improves learning outcomes for high school (less experienced learners) and university students (experienced learners) in a hypertext environment. Map coherence was defined as the extent to which relationships between the concepts in the map were made explicit. Therefore, we classified the mapping task of creating and labelling lines as ...

Human perception is shaped by past experience on multiple timescales. Sudden and dramatic changes in perception occur when prior knowledge or expectations match stimulus content. These immediate effects contrast with the longer-term, more gradual improvements that are characteristic of perceptual learning. Despite extensive investigation of these two experience-dependent phenomena, there is con...