Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23313835›Full record

Trial reportBrain and cognition2013

Feedback and stimulus-offset timing effects in perceptual category learning.

Darrell A Worthy, Arthur B Markman, W Todd Maddox

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Brain and cognition, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Is there a criterion in criterial learning? Insights from studying feedback delays.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2026
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  7. Task and distribution sampling affect auditory category learning.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2018
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  10. Performance Pressure Enhances Speech Learning.Applied psycholinguistics · 2016
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  15. Differential effects of dopamine-directed treatments on cognition.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2015
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  19. A role for the medial temporal lobe in feedback-driven learning: evidence from amnesia.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Darrell A WorthyDepartment of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. worthyda@tamu.edu
Arthur B Markman
W Todd Maddox

Funding

Genetic Influences on Dual Processing Modes of Reward and Punishment LearningR01DA032457 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI BEEVERS, CHRISTOPHER G · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
Tests of neurobiologically-inspired Model of the Motivation-Learning InterfaceR01MH077708 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI MADDOX, W TODD TODD · 2007 to 2011
$1.5M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA032457NIMH NIH HHS MH077708NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH077708
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examined how feedback delay and stimulus offset timing affected declarative, rule-based and procedural, information-integration category-learning. We predicted that small feedback delays of several hundred milliseconds would lead to the best information-integration learning based on a highly regarded neurobiological model of learning in the striatum. In Experiment 1 information-integration learning was best with feedback delays of 500ms compared to delays of 0 and 1000ms. This effect was only obtained if the stimulus offset following the response. Rule-based learning was unaffected by the length of feedback delay, but was better when the stimulus was present throughout feedback than when it offset following the response. In Experiment 2 we found that a large variance (SD=150ms) in feedback delay times around a mean delay of 500ms attenuated information-integration learning, but a small variance (SD=75ms) did not. In Experiment 3 we found that the delay between stimulus offset and feedback is more critical to information-integration learning than the delay between the response and feedback. These results demonstrate the importance of feedback timing in category-learning situations where a declarative, verbalizable rule cannot easily be used as a heuristic to classify members into their correct category.

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AdultFeedback, PsychologicalHumansLearningNeuropsychological TestsPsychomotor PerformanceTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID23313835
PMCPMC3560315

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