
doi: 10.1037/a0031670
pmid: 23421512
Researchers have proposed that an explicit reasoning system is responsible for learning rule-based category structures and that a separate implicit, procedural-learning system is responsible for learning information-integration category structures. As evidence for this multiple-system hypothesis, researchers report a dissociation based on category-number manipulations in which rule-based category learning is worse when the category is composed of 4, rather than 2, response categories; however, information-integration category learning is unaffected by category-number manipulations. We argue that within the reported category-number manipulations, there exists a critical confound: Perceptual clusters used to construct the categories are spread apart in the 4-category condition relative to the 2-category one. The present research shows that when this confound is eliminated, performance on information-integration category learning is worse for 4 categories than for 2 categories, and this finding is demonstrated across 2 different information-integration category structures. Furthermore, model-based analyses indicate that a single-system learning model accounts well for both the original findings and the updated experimental findings reported here.
Male, Analysis of Variance, Universities, Concept Formation, Association, Predictive Value of Tests, Mental Recall, Humans, Learning, Female, Comprehension, Students, Photic Stimulation, Probability
Male, Analysis of Variance, Universities, Concept Formation, Association, Predictive Value of Tests, Mental Recall, Humans, Learning, Female, Comprehension, Students, Photic Stimulation, Probability
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