Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7277916 | Acta Psychologica | 2014 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Training people on temporal discrimination can substantially improve performance in the trained modality but also in untrained modalities. A pretest-training-posttest design was used to investigate whether consolidation plays a crucial role for training effects within the trained modality and its transfer to another modality. In the pretest, both auditory and visual discrimination performance was assessed. In the training phase, participants performed only the auditory task. After a consolidation interval of either 5Â min or 24Â h, participants were again tested in both the auditory and visual tasks. Irrespective of the consolidation interval, performance improved from the pretest to the posttest in both modalities. Most importantly, the training effect for the trained auditory modality was independent of the consolidation interval whereas the transfer effect to the visual modality was larger after 24Â h than after 5Â min. This finding shows that transfer effects benefit from extended consolidation.
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Authors
Daniel Bratzke, Hannes Schröter, Rolf Ulrich,