Recency effects as a window to generalization: separating decisional and perceptual sequential effects in category learning.
@article{Jones2006RecencyEA,
title={Recency effects as a window to generalization: separating decisional and perceptual sequential effects in category learning.},
author={Matt Jones and Bradley C. Love and W. Todd Maddox},
journal={Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition},
year={2006},
volume={32 2},
pages={
316-32
}
}Accounts of learning and generalization typically focus on factors related to lasting changes in representation (i.e., long-term memory). The authors present evidence that shorter term effects also play a critical role in determining performance and that these recency effects can be subdivided into perceptual and decisional components. Experimental results based on a probabilistic category structure show that the previous stimulus exerts a contrastive effect on the current percept (perceptual…
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