Training specificity and transfer in time and distance estimation.
Learning is often specific to the conditions of training, making it important to identify which aspects of the testing environment are crucial to be matched in the training environment. In the present study, we examined training specificity in time and distance estimation tasks that differed only in...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 736 - 748 |
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