کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
919077 919882 2009 20 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Evidence of blocking with geometric cues in a virtual watermaze
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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Evidence of blocking with geometric cues in a virtual watermaze
چکیده انگلیسی

Three computer based experiments, testing human participants in a non-immersive virtual watermaze task, used a blocking design to assess whether two sets of geometric cues would compete in a manner described by associative models of learning. In stage 1, participants were required to discriminate between visually distinct platforms. In stage 2, additional spatial information was provided by the shape or the color of the walls of the pool. In a test trial, the platforms were removed and the spatial knowledge acquired regarding the position of the platform was assessed. Experimental groups were compared against control groups which did not receive stage 1 training. The unique color of the correct platform, in Experiments 1 and 3, disrupted learning about the colored walls but not the geometry of the pool. In Experiment 2, the correct platform was identifiable from its position within the three platform array. Learning the relative position of the correct platform within the array disrupted learning about its position relative to the geometry of the pool, but not to the colored walls. The results suggest that learning the position of a goal in relation to the geometry of the environment can be blocked but only by an alternative geometric cue.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Learning and Motivation - Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 15–34
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