TY - JOUR
T1 - Posterror slowing predicts rule-based but not information-integration category learning
AU - Tam, Helen
AU - Maddox, W. Todd
AU - Huang-Pollock, Cynthia L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by National Institute of Mental Health Grant No. R01 MH084947 to C.L.H-P and by NIDA Grant No. R01 DA032457 to W.T.M. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Mental Health, NIDA, or the National Institutes of Health. We thank the tireless research assistants who helped in the conduct of this study.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - We examined whether error monitoring, operationalized as the degree to which individuals slow down after committing an error (i.e., posterror slowing), is differentially important in the learning of rule-based versus information-integration category structures. Rule-based categories are most efficiently solved through the application of an explicit verbal strategy (e.g., "sort by color"). In contrast, information-integration categories are believed to be learned in a trial-by-trial, associative manner. Our results indicated that posterror slowing predicts enhanced rule-based but not information-integration category learning. Implications for multiple category-learning systems are discussed.
AB - We examined whether error monitoring, operationalized as the degree to which individuals slow down after committing an error (i.e., posterror slowing), is differentially important in the learning of rule-based versus information-integration category structures. Rule-based categories are most efficiently solved through the application of an explicit verbal strategy (e.g., "sort by color"). In contrast, information-integration categories are believed to be learned in a trial-by-trial, associative manner. Our results indicated that posterror slowing predicts enhanced rule-based but not information-integration category learning. Implications for multiple category-learning systems are discussed.
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U2 - 10.3758/s13423-013-0441-0
DO - 10.3758/s13423-013-0441-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 23625741
AN - SCOPUS:84889575812
SN - 1069-9384
VL - 20
SP - 1343
EP - 1349
JO - Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
JF - Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
IS - 6
ER -