Mechanisms of Implicit Learning: Connectionist Models of Sequence Processing By Axel Cleeremans
Publisher: The M.I.T Press 1993 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 0262032058 | CHM | 1 MB
Publisher: The M.I.T Press 1993 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 0262032058 | CHM | 1 MB
What do people learn when they do not know that they are learning? Until recently all of the work in the area of implicit learning focused on empirical questions and methods. In this book, Axel Cleeremans explores unintentional learning from an information-processing perspective. He introduces a theoretical framework that unifies existing data and models on implicit learning, along with a detailed computational model of human performance in sequence-learning situations.The model, based on a simple recurrent network (SRN), is able to predict perfectly the successive elements of sequences generated from finite-state, grammars. Human subjects are shown to exhibit a similar sensitivity to the temporal structure in a series of choice reaction time experiments of increasing complexity; yet their explicit knowledge of the sequence remains limited.