Neural network modeling of developmental effects in discrimination shifts

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to compare the ability of artificial neural networks with existing psychological theories in stimulating age effects in shift learning. A new simulation model that uses cascade-correlation algorithm was applied to the balance scale and discrimination shifts. Results showed that the model is better than leading theories in terms of capturing the regularities of the discrimination shift and suggest that spontaneous overtraining by older participants causes human developmental differences in shift learning.

Psychological aspects, Usage, Computer networks, Children, Neural networks, Cognition in children, Cognitive development, Learning ability

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Children's performance on "animal tests" of oddity: implications for cognitive processes required for tests of oddity and delayed nonmatch to sample

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Children use different strategies to solve different versions of an oddity task developed for monkeys. Children and adults are tested on two versions of the oddity task using non-verbal methods to examine the ontogenesis of oddity learning. The two-part oddity task is mastered faster than the one-part task. Children's performances fall greatly on retesting for one-part tasks, which are ususally mastered only after providing verbal instructions.

Analysis, Memory in children, Children's memory

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Decomposing water-level responses: field effects as separate influences

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Field effects and response rule effects determine children's and adolescents' performance on water-level task items. A rod-and-frame task is used as a measure of field-dependent effects. The frame of the vessel influences water-level responses. The influence of field effects is more for random rule responses than for fixed response rule. This indicates that even the use of fixed rules fails to eliminate field effects.

Field dependence (Psychology), Field dependence-independence

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