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Social intuition as a form of implicit learning: Sequences of body movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences
In the current paper, we first evaluate the suitability of traditional serial reaction time (SRT) and artificial grammar learning (AGL) experiments for measuring implicit learning of social signals. We then report the results of a novel sequence learning task which combines aspects of the SRT and AG...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3367869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22679467 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10053-008-0109-x |
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description | In the current paper, we first evaluate the suitability of traditional serial reaction time (SRT) and artificial grammar learning (AGL) experiments for measuring implicit learning of social signals. We then report the results of a novel sequence learning task which combines aspects of the SRT and AGL paradigms to meet our suggested criteria for how implicit learning experiments can be adapted to increase their relevance to situations of social intuition. The sequences followed standard finite-state grammars. Sequence learning and consciousness of acquired knowledge were compared between 2 groups of 24 participants viewing either sequences of individually presented letters or sequences of body-posture pictures, which were described as series of yoga movements. Participants in both conditions showed above-chance classification accuracy, indicating that sequence learning had occurred in both stimulus conditions. This shows that sequence learning can still be found when learning procedures reflect the characteristics of social intuition. Rule awareness was measured using trial-by-trial evaluation of decision strategy (Dienes & Scott, 2005; Scott & Dienes, 2008). For letters, sequence classification was best on trials where participants reported responding on the basis of explicit rules or memory, indicating some explicit learning in this condition. For body-posture, classification was not above chance on these types of trial, but instead showed a trend to be best on those trials where participants reported that their responses were based on intuition, familiarity, or random choice, suggesting that learning was more implicit. Results therefore indicate that the use of traditional stimuli in research on sequence learning might underestimate the extent to which learning is implicit in domains such as social learning, contributing to ongoing debate about levels of conscious awareness in implicit learning. |
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spelling | pubmed-33678692012-06-07 Social intuition as a form of implicit learning: Sequences of body movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences Norman, Elisabeth Price, Mark C. Adv Cogn Psychol Research Article In the current paper, we first evaluate the suitability of traditional serial reaction time (SRT) and artificial grammar learning (AGL) experiments for measuring implicit learning of social signals. We then report the results of a novel sequence learning task which combines aspects of the SRT and AGL paradigms to meet our suggested criteria for how implicit learning experiments can be adapted to increase their relevance to situations of social intuition. The sequences followed standard finite-state grammars. Sequence learning and consciousness of acquired knowledge were compared between 2 groups of 24 participants viewing either sequences of individually presented letters or sequences of body-posture pictures, which were described as series of yoga movements. Participants in both conditions showed above-chance classification accuracy, indicating that sequence learning had occurred in both stimulus conditions. This shows that sequence learning can still be found when learning procedures reflect the characteristics of social intuition. Rule awareness was measured using trial-by-trial evaluation of decision strategy (Dienes & Scott, 2005; Scott & Dienes, 2008). For letters, sequence classification was best on trials where participants reported responding on the basis of explicit rules or memory, indicating some explicit learning in this condition. For body-posture, classification was not above chance on these types of trial, but instead showed a trend to be best on those trials where participants reported that their responses were based on intuition, familiarity, or random choice, suggesting that learning was more implicit. Results therefore indicate that the use of traditional stimuli in research on sequence learning might underestimate the extent to which learning is implicit in domains such as social learning, contributing to ongoing debate about levels of conscious awareness in implicit learning. University of Finance and Management in Warsaw 2012-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3367869/ /pubmed/22679467 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10053-008-0109-x Text en Copyright: © 2012 University of Finance and Management in Warsaw http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Norman, Elisabeth Price, Mark C. Social intuition as a form of implicit learning: Sequences of body movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences |
title | Social intuition as a form of implicit learning: Sequences of body
movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences |
title_full | Social intuition as a form of implicit learning: Sequences of body
movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences |
title_fullStr | Social intuition as a form of implicit learning: Sequences of body
movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences |
title_full_unstemmed | Social intuition as a form of implicit learning: Sequences of body
movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences |
title_short | Social intuition as a form of implicit learning: Sequences of body
movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences |
title_sort | social intuition as a form of implicit learning: sequences of body
movements are learned less explicitly than letter sequences |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3367869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22679467 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10053-008-0109-x |
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