Do Learned Irrelevance and Perseveration Play a Role during Discrimination Learning?

Autor/inn/en	Maes, J. H. R.; Eling, P. A. T. M.
Titel	Do Learned Irrelevance and Perseveration Play a Role during Discrimination Learning?
Quelle	In: Learning and Motivation, 40 (2009) 3, S.274-283 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-9690
DOI	10.1016/j.lmot.2009.02.001
Schlagwörter	Play; Discrimination Learning; Attention; Task Analysis; Learning Processes; Error Correction; Persistence; Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Lernen; Lernprozess; Aufmerksamkeit; Aufgabenanalyse; Learning process; Korrektur; Ausdauer; Anreizsystem
Abstract	In both healthy participants and various patient populations, performance on attentional set-shifting tasks has been found to be affected by learned irrelevance and/or perseveration. The present study examined whether or not these processes also play a role during the initial discrimination learning phase of those tasks. To this end, participants first solved a multidimensional discrimination learning task. Thereafter, they underwent three types of shift of relevant and/or irrelevant stimulus attributes, which enabled the assessment of the separate contribution of perseveration and learned irrelevance to post-shift task performance. Subsequent correlational analyses revealed that the number of errors during initial discrimination learning was significantly correlated with the number of errors in the learned irrelevance-shift but not the perseveration-shift. This suggests that processes underlying learned irrelevance in post-shift task performance also play a significant role during initial discrimination learning. The implications of these results for interpreting deficits in shifting are discussed. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10