Theoretical and computational analysis of skill learning, repetition priming, and procedural memory.
This article analyzes the relationship between skill learning and repetition priming, 2 implicit memory phenomena. A number of reports have suggested that skill learning and repetition priming can be dissociated from each other and are therefore based on different mechanisms. The authors present a theoretical analysis showing that previous results cannot be regarded as evidence of a processing dissociation between skill learning and repetition priming. The authors also present a single-mechanism computational model that simulates a specific experimental task and exhibits both skill learning and repetition priming, as well as a number of apparent dissociations between these measures. These theoretical and computational analyses provide complementary evidence that skill learning and repetition priming are aspects of a single underlying mechanism that has the characteristics of procedural memory.
Gupta
Prahlad
P
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA. prahlad-gupta@uiowa.edu
Cohen
Neal J
NJ
D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis