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Direct linkBurns, Richard A.; Racey, Deborah E.; Ratliff, Chasity L. – Learning and Motivation, 2008
Evidence that outcome associations, position associations, and response patterns each contribute to performance in animal serial learning came from two experiments in which three-trial series of rewarded and not-rewarded trials were examined. Response patterns were disrupted in Experiment 1 by placing animals directly in the goal on selected…
Descriptors: Animals, Cues, Serial Learning, Organizations (Groups)
Fountain, Stephen B.; Benson, Don M., Jr. – Learning and Motivation, 2006
Nonhuman animals, like humans, appear sensitive to the structure of the elements of sequences, perhaps even when the structure relates nonadjacent elements. In the present study, we examined the contribution of chunking, rule learning, and item memory when rats learned serial patterns composed of two interleaved subpatterns. In one group, the…
Descriptors: Memory, Animals, Serial Learning, Discrimination Learning
