Category label and response location shifts in category learning

TitleCategory label and response location shifts in category learning
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsW Maddox, T., Glass B. D., O'Brien J. B., J Filoteo V., & F Ashby G.
JournalPsychological Research
Volume74
Issue2
Pagination219-236
Date Published2010 Mar
ISSN1430-2772
KeywordsAdult, Analysis of Variance, Association Learning, Attention, Concept Formation, Humans, Orientation, Photic Stimulation, Problem Solving, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Rotation, Space Perception, Visual Perception
Abstract

The category shift literature suggests that rule-based classification, an important form of explicit learning, is mediated by two separate learned associations: a stimulus-to-label association that associates stimuli and category labels, and a label-to-response association that associates category labels and responses. Three experiments investigate whether information-integration classification, an important form of implicit learning, is also mediated by two separate learned associations. Participants were trained on a rule-based or an information-integration categorization task and then the association between stimulus and category label, or between category label and response location was altered. For rule-based categories, and in line with previous research, breaking the association between stimulus and category label caused more interference than breaking the association between category label and response location. However, no differences in recovery rate emerged. For information-integration categories, breaking the association between stimulus and category label caused more interference and led to greater recovery than breaking the association between category label and response location. These results provide evidence that information-integration category learning is mediated by separate stimulus-to-label and label-to-response associations. Implications for the neurobiological basis of these two learned associations are discussed.

DOI10.1007/s00426-009-0245-z
Alternate JournalPsychol Res
PubMed ID19471959
PubMed Central IDPMC2808515
Grant ListR01 MH3760-2 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States
R01 MH059196 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States
R01 NS041372 / NS / NINDS NIH HHS / United States
R01 MH077708-03 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States
R01 MH59196 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States
R01 MH077708 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States
R01 NS41372 / NS / NINDS NIH HHS / United States