Serial Learning

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Functional anatomy of pitch memory--an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling.

Auditory functional magnetic resonance imaging tasks are challenging since the MR scanner noise can interfere with the auditory stimulation. To avoid this interference a sparse temporal sampling method with a long repetition time (TR = 17 s) was used to ...
Nadine Gaab, Christian Gaser, Tino Zaehle, Lutz Jancke, Gottfried Schlaug (Neuroimage, 200308)
functional-anatomy-pitch-memory-fmri-study-sparse-temporal-sampling.asp

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Cortical mechanisms for acquisition and performance of bimanual motor sequences.

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the cortical mechanisms contributing to the acquisition and performance of a complex, bimanual motor sequence. To that aim, five subjects were trained on a difficult, asymmetrical finger ...
P De Weerd, K Reinke, L Ryan, T McIsaac, P Perschler, D Schnyer, T Trouard, A Gmitro (Neuroimage, 200308)
cortical-mechanisms-acquisition-performance-bimanual-motor-sequences.asp

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Implicit learning of visuospatial sequences in schizophrenia.

The authors examined whether patients with schizophrenia learned sequential patterns in a probabilistic serial response time task in which pattern trials alternated with random ones. Patients showed faster and more accurate responses to pattern trials ...
Barbara L Schwartz, Darlene V Howard, James H Howard, Alexandra Hovaguimian, Stephen I Deutsch (Neuropsychology, 200307)
implicit-learning-visuospatial-sequences-schizophrenia.asp

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Age deficits in learning sequences of spoken words.

Previous research has demonstrated age-related deficits in implicit learning of visual sequences characterized by subtle predictive relationships among the sequence elements. This study investigates whether this reflects modality-specific, or more ...
Nancy A Dennis, James H Howard, Darlene V Howard (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200307)
age-deficits-learning-sequences-spoken-words.asp

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Sit-and-wait strategies in dynamic visual search.

The role of memory in visual search has lately become a controversial issue. Horowitz and Wolfe (1998) observed that performance in a visual search task was little affected by whether the stimuli were static or randomly relocated every 111 ms. Because a ...
Adrian von Mühlenen, Hermann J Müller, Dagmar Müller (Psychol Sci, 200307)
sit-wait-strategies-dynamic-visual-search.asp

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Rule learning in a serial reaction time task: an fMRI study on patients with early Parkinsons disease.

In the present study, we investigated implicit rule learning in patients with Parkinsons disease (PD) and healthy participants. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a variant of the serial reaction time task were employed to examine the ...
Katja Werheid, Stefan Zysset, A Müller, M Reuter, D Yves von Cramon (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200304)
rule-learning-serial-reaction-time-task-fmri-study-patients-early.asp

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Effects of cross-modal and intramodal division of attention on perceptual implicit memory.

Extant results motivate 3 hypotheses on the role of attention in perceptual implicit memory. The first proposes that only intramodal manipulations of attention reduce perceptual priming. The second attributes reduced priming to the effects of distractor ...
Neil W Mulligan (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200303)
effects-cross-modal-intramodal-division-attention-perceptual-implicit.asp

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Forward and backward recall: different response time patterns, same retrieval order.

How do people retrieve information in forward and backward recall? To address this issue, we examined response times in directional recall as a function of serial position and list length. Participants memorized lists of four to six words and entered ...
John G Thomas, Haley R Milner, Karl F Haberlandt (Psychol Sci, 200303)
forward-backward-recall-different-response-time-patterns-same.asp

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Novelty responses and differential effects of order in the amygdala, substantia innominata, and inferior temporal cortex.

Recent studies of amygdala function have focused on examining responses to emotionally valenced versus neutral stimuli. However, electrophysiologic and neuroimaging studies also suggest that novel neutral faces activate the amygdala, though few ...
Christopher I Wright, Brian Martis, Carl E Schwartz, Lisa M Shin, Håkan Fischer H, Katherine McMullin, Scott L Rauch (Neuroimage, 200303)
novelty-responses-differential-effects-order-amygdala-substantia.asp

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Repetition blindness for words yet repetition advantage for nonwords.

Accuracy of report of words in a rapidly presented sequence is reduced if 1 word is a repetition of a previous word. This is repetition blindness. If, however, the items are pronounceable nonwords, or pseudohomophones, repetition improves recall. A ...
Veronika Coltheart, Robyn Langdon (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200303)
repetition-blindness-words-yet-repetition-advantage-nonwords.asp