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Yanjun Liu; Ben R. Newell; Jaimie E. Lee; Brett K. Hayes – Cognitive Science, 2025
A simple-rule learning trap occurs when people show suboptimal category learning due to insufficient exploration of the learning environment. By combining experimental methods and computational modeling, the current study investigated the impact of two key factors believed to play essential roles in the development of a simple-rule learning trap:…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Attention Control, Educational Environment, Barriers
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Burling, Joseph M.; Yoshida, Hanako – Cognitive Science, 2017
The literature on human and animal learning suggests that individuals attend to and act on cues differently based on the order in which they were learned. Recent studies have proposed that one specific type of learning outcome, the highlighting effect, can serve as a framework for understanding a number of early cognitive milestones. However,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Learning Processes, Bias