Rapidly measuring the speed of unconscious learning: amnesics learn quickly and happy people slowly.

BACKGROUND: We introduce a method for quickly determining the rate of implicit learning. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: The task involves making a binary prediction for a probabilistic sequence over 10 minutes; from this it is possible to determine the influence of events of a different number of t...

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Main Authors: Zoltan Dienes, Roland J Baddeley, Ashok Jansari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3311634?pdf=render