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ERIC Number: EJ1375743
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Apr
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0364-0213
EISSN: EISSN-1551-6709
Interleaving Effects in Blindfolded Perceptual Learning across Various Sensory Modalities
Abel, Roman
Cognitive Science, v47 n4 e13270 Apr 2023
Research on sequence effects on learning "visual" categories has shown that interleaving (i.e., studying the categories in a mixed manner) facilitates category induction as compared to blocking (i.e., studying the categories one by one), but learners are unaware of the interleaving effect and prefer blocking. However, little attention has been paid to sequence effects in perceptual learning across further sensory modalities. The present (preregistered) research addresses this shortcoming by using "auditory" (birdcalls), "olfactory" (tealeaves), "gustatory" (ingredient mixtures), and "tactile" (stones) stimuli across four analog experiments. The number of participants per experiment was determined based on a "medium" effect size of interleaving. Participants studied six categories (with six exemplars, respectively) either interleaved or blocked. No single experiment showed a significant effect of interleaving. We ran a comprehensive meta-analysis based on the data from all experiments, which revealed a significant "small" effect of interleaving, demonstrating its applicability to perceptual learning across "all" sensory modalities. Learners in the interleaved condition underestimated their classification performance. Overall, learners did not rate interleaving as less effective than blocking, which is at odds with previous studies that consistently demonstrated a metacognitive preference of blocking. Our findings suggest that learners rely less on conventional beliefs about the effectivity of study sequence when dealing with "un"familiar (blindfolded) perceptual learning tasks.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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