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Vadillo, Miguel A.; Orgaz, Cristina; Luque, David; Nelson, James Byron – Learning & Memory, 2016
It has been suggested that people and nonhuman animals protect their knowledge from interference by shifting attention toward the context when presented with information that contradicts their previous beliefs. Despite that suggestion, no studies have directly measured changes in attention while participants are exposed to an interference…
Descriptors: Animals, Interference (Learning), Attention, Context Effect
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Laski, Elida V.; Dulaney, Alana – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
The present study tested the "interference hypothesis"-that learning and using more advanced representations and strategies requires the inhibition of prior, less advanced ones. Specifically, it examined the relation between inhibitory control and number line estimation performance. Experiment 1 compared the accuracy of adults' (N = 53)…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Learning Processes, Inhibition, Interference (Learning)