A 50% shock reinforcement rate yielded the most learners compared with 35% and 60% rates¶

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q2 i? The 50% reinforcement rate condition produced the highest proportion of learners (79.31%), compared with 72.41% at 60% and 50.00% at 35%. → Marino 2025

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Marino 2025¶

Marino, C. E., Rjabtsenkov, P., Sharp, C., Ali, Z., Pineda, E., Bavdekar, S. Y., Garg, T., Jordan, K., Halvorsen, M., Aponte, C., Blue, J., Zhu, X. & Suarez-Jimenez, B. (2025). Using virtual reality to study spatial mapping and threat learning. npj Science of Learning 10:14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00305-6

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Descriptive comparison across three independent non-overlapping groups (35%, 50%, 60% reinforcement rates) in the pooled 70-participant sample. "The task that employed a 50% reinforcement rate yielded the most learners (79.31% of the sample)"; no inferential test of this group difference is reported.

"The task that employed a 50% reinforcement rate yielded the most learners (79.31% of the sample). For the tasks that used a 60% or 35% reinforcement rate, learners made up 72.41% and 50.00% of the samples, respectively."

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