The case for implicit category learning

N281 Implicit Category Learning 1 Running Head: (N281) THE CASE FOR IMPLICIT CATEGORY LEARNING The Case for Implicit Category Learning

This paper evaluates the evidence regarding the claim that people can learn a novel category implicitly, i.e., by an implicit memory system that is qualitatively different from an explicit system. The evidence considered is based on the prototype-extraction task, in which participants are first exposed to a set of category exemplars under incidental learning instructions, and are then required ...

The cognitive neuroscience of implicit category learning

There is much recent interest in the question of whether people have available a single category learning system or a number of qualitatively different systems. Most proponents of multiple systems have hypothesized an explicit, rule-based system and some type of implicit system. Although there has been general agreement about the nature of the explicit system, there has been disagreement about ...

Implicit and Explicit Category Learning 1 Running head: Evidence for Implicit and Explicit Category Learning Reevaluating Dissociations Between Implicit and Explicit Category Learning: An Event-Related fMRI Study

Altered implicit category learning in anorexia nervosa.

OBJECTIVE Recent research has identified specific cognitive deficits in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), including impairment in executive functioning and attention. Another such cognitive process, implicit category learning has been less studied in AN. This study examined whether implicit category learning is impaired in AN. METHOD Twenty-one women diagnosed with AN and 19 control women ...

Development of implicit and explicit category learning.

We present two studies that examined developmental differences in the implicit and explicit acquisition of category knowledge. College-attending adults consistently outperformed school-age children on two separate information-integration paradigms due to children's more frequent use of an explicit rule-based strategy. Accuracy rates were also higher for adults on a unidimensional rule-based tas...