Abstract
During visual category learning, full feedback (e.g., "Wrong, that was a category 4."), relative to minimal feedback (e.g., "Wrong."), enhances performance when the relevant dimensions are separable. This pattern is reversed with inseparable dimensions. Here, the interaction between trial-by-trial feedback and separability of dimensions in the auditory domain is examined. Participants were trained to categorize auditory stimuli along separable or inseparable dimensions. One group received full feedback, while the other group received minimal feedback. In the separable-dimensions condition, the full-feedback group achieved higher accuracy than did the minimal-feedback group. In the inseparable-dimensions condition, performance was equivalent across the feedback groups. These results altogether suggest that trial-by-trial feedback affects auditory category learning performance differentially for separable and inseparable categories.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1332-1335 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
| Volume | 140 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1 2016 |
Funding
Research reported in this letter was supported by the National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health under Award No. R01DC013315 834 (B.C.).
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics