Uncovering the processes underlying human category learning

揭示人类类别学习的潜在过程

• 批准号: DP0877510
• 负责人: Prof Benjamin Newell
• 金额: $ 11.45万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0877510
• 关键词: Uncovering; processes; underlying; human; category

There is a pervasive belief that complex tasks can somehow be learned via a 'smart' implicit or procedural learning mechanism, which operates independently of memory and attention. This idea has important implications for our understanding of cognition. If true, there seems little point in providing explicit instruction in such tasks, and efforts to do so are, at best, wasted time and, at worst, detrimental to the learning process. This project will provide much-needed scrutiny of this idea and will help not only to re-orient our understanding of how we deal with complex information, but will also highlight issues about data interpretation that are fundamental for the research and wider communities.

人们普遍认为，复杂的任务可以通过一种“聪明的”内隐或程序性学习机制来学习，这种机制独立于记忆和注意力。这一观点对我们理解认知有着重要的意义。 如果这是真的，那么在这些任务中提供明确的指导似乎没有什么意义，而且这样做的努力充其量只是浪费时间，最坏的情况是不利于学习过程。该项目将对这一想法进行急需的审查，不仅有助于重新定位我们对如何处理复杂信息的理解，还将突出对研究和更广泛社区至关重要的数据解释问题。