| Why interleaving enhances inductive learning: The roles of discrimination and retrieval. | |
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PMID: 23138567 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Kornell and Bjork (Psychological Science 19:585-592, 2008) found that interleaving exemplars of different categories enhanced inductive learning of the concepts based on those exemplars. They hypothesized that the benefit of mixing exemplars from different categories is that doing so highlights differences between the categories. Kang and Pashler (Applied Cognitive Psychology 26:97-103, 2012) obtained results consistent with this discriminative-contrast hypothesis: Interleaving enhanced inductive learning, but temporal spacing, which does not highlight category differences, did not. We further tested the discriminative-contrast hypothesis by examining the effects of interleaving and spacing, as well as their combined effects. In three experiments, using photographs of butterflies and birds as the stimuli, temporal spacing was harmful when it interrupted the juxtaposition of interleaved categories, even when total spacing was held constant, supporting the discriminative-contrast hypothesis. Temporal spacing also had value, however, when it did not interrupt discrimination processing. |
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Monica S Birnbaum; Nate Kornell; Elizabeth Ligon Bjork; Robert A Bjork |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-11-9 |
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Title: Memory & cognition Volume: - ISSN: 1532-5946 ISO Abbreviation: Mem Cognit Publication Date: 2012 Nov |
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Created Date: 2012-11-9 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0357443 Medline TA: Mem Cognit Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1563, USA, monicasb@ucla.edu. |
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