Human learning: Power laws or multiple characteristic time scales?

The central proposal of A. Newell and Rosenbloom (1981) was that the power law is the ubiquitous law of learning. This proposition is discussed in the context of the key factors that led to the acceptance of the power law as the function of learning. We then outline the principles of an epigenetic l...

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Main Authors: Gottfried Mayer-Kress, Karl M. Newell, Yeou-The Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université d'Ottawa 2006-09-01
Series:Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology
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Online Access:http://www.tqmp.org/Content/vol02-2/p066/p066.pdf