Memory function involves both the ability to remember details of individual experiences and
the ability to link information across events to create new knowledge. Prior research has …

The sequence of study influences how we learn. Previous research has identified different
sequences as potentially beneficial for learning in different contexts and with different …

Although much recent work in perceptual learning (PL) has focused on basic sensory
discriminations, recent analyses suggest that PL in a variety of tasks depends on processes …

Theoretical models of unsupervised category learning postulate that humans “invent”
categories to accommodate new patterns, but tend to group stimuli into a small number of …

Nearly all tasks of daily life involve skilled object manipulation, and successful manipulation
requires knowledge of object dynamics. We recently developed a motor learning paradigm …

Attention-and memory-based accounts of sequencing effects in category learning are often
pitted against one another, but we propose that both are important. We created an …

Three experiments with 88 college-aged participants explored how unlabeled experiences—
learning episodes in which people encounter objects without information about their …

Although current exemplar models of category learning are flexible and can capture how
different features are emphasized for different categories, they still lack the flexibility to adapt …

Our knowledge of the world is populated with categories such as dogs, cups, and chairs.
Such categories shape how we perceive, remember, and reason about their members …

In rule-based (RB) category-learning tasks, the optimal strategy is a simple explicit rule,
whereas in information-integration (II) tasks, the optimal strategy is impossible to describe …