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Choffin, Benoît; Popineau, Fabrice; Bourda, Yolaine; Vie, Jill-Jênn – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Spaced repetition is among the most studied learning strategies in the cognitive science literature. It consists in temporally distributing exposure to an information so as to improve long-term memorization. Providing students with an adaptive and personalized distributed practice schedule would benefit more than just a generic scheduler. However,…
Descriptors: Intervals, Scheduling, Repetition, Memorization
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French, Robert M.; Addyman, Caspar; Mareschal, Denis – Psychological Review, 2011
Individuals of all ages extract structure from the sequences of patterns they encounter in their environment, an ability that is at the very heart of cognition. Exactly what underlies this ability has been the subject of much debate over the years. A novel mechanism, implicit chunk recognition (ICR), is proposed for sequence segmentation and chunk…
Descriptors: Infants, Probability, Learning Processes, Pattern Recognition
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Stewart, Neil; Brown, Gordon D. A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
In contrast to exemplar and decision-bound categorization models, the memory and contrast models described here do not assume that long-term representations of stimulus magnitudes are available. Instead, stimuli are assumed to be categorized using only their differences from a few recent stimuli. To test this alternative, the authors examined…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Memory, Sequential Approach
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Jeffries, Robin; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1977
The water jug task model was extended to four variations of the Missionaries--Cannibals river-crossing problem. Different cover stories resulted in large differences in number of illegal moves, but no difference in number of legal moves to solution. The three-stage process model explains both legal and illegal moves. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Games, Higher Education