Prior experience can influence whether the whole is different from the sum of its parts.

In two conditioning experiments with humans, we found that participants' prior experience exerted considerable influence on later learning of configural discrimination problems. Prior experience was manipulated by pre-training participants before the main acquisition stage. They either received a di...

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Publicado en:Learning & Motivation Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 20 - 42
Autores principales: Melchers, Klaus G., Lachnit, Harald, Üngör, Metin
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Publicado: Academic Press Inc. February 2005
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