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Couture, Mathieu; Lafond, Daniel; Tremblay, Sebastien – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
In a serial recall task, the "Hebb repetition effect" occurs when recall performance improves for a sequence repeated throughout the experimental session. This phenomenon has been replicated many times. Nevertheless, such cumulative learning seldom leads to perfect recall of the whole sequence, and errors persist. Here the authors report…
Descriptors: Probability, Recall (Psychology), Sequential Learning, Error Analysis (Language)
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Chater, Nick; Brown, Gordon D. A. – Cognitive Science, 2008
The remarkable successes of the physical sciences have been built on highly general quantitative laws, which serve as the basis for understanding an enormous variety of specific physical systems. How far is it possible to construct universal principles in the cognitive sciences, in terms of which specific aspects of perception, memory, or decision…
Descriptors: Sciences, Scientific Principles, Models, Memory
Jones, Mari R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1973
Two experiments compared Ss' serial recall of 16 hierarchically formed patterns of ordered digits. (Author)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Memorization, Memory, Prediction