Later sequence position slows general learning rate in the face view discrimination task¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
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q3 i? Participants receiving face view discrimination training later in the sequence showed slower general learning rates. → Jia Yang 2025

Evidence¶

Jia Yang 2025¶

Jia Yang, Fang-Fang Yan, Tingting Wang, Zile Wang, Qingshang Ma, Jinmei Xiao, Xianyuan Yang, Zhong-Lin Lu & Chang-Bing Huang. (2025). Anterograde interference in multitask perceptual learning. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00312-7

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Session-by-session LMM analysis in Experiment 1A: for the face view discrimination task the best fitting model was M3, "with a negative coef ficient of sequence position on general learning rate", indicating slower general learning rates for participants receiving training later.

"with a negative coef ficient of sequence position on general learning rate ( β2 ¼/C0 0:020, p = 0.01, 95% CI = [ /C0 0:035; /C0 0:004]), indicating slower general learning rates for par- ticipants receiving training later."

Discussion¶

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