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Cognitive Arithmetic: News from Transfer of Learning| old_uid | 15442 |
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| title | Cognitive Arithmetic: News from Transfer of Learning |
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| start_date | 2015/04/02 |
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| schedule | 10h30-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Over the last few years, work in my lab has studied memory for everyday arithmetic facts (e.g., 2 + 4 = 6) through the phenomena of retrieval-induced interference as well as facilitative transfer of learning through generalization of practice. I will review some of this recent transfer work and also talk about new, as yet published findings. The retrieval-induced interference phenomena are challenging because they appear to imply a type of inhibitory mechanism (competitor inhibition below baseline) that no theory of cognitive arithmetic currently explains. The generalization data potentially have important implications for recent claims that adult’s skilled performance of simple addition may be based on fast counting procedures rather than based on fact retrieval from semantic memory. In another application, retrieval-induced interference and generalization phenomena also suggest that strong bilinguals may possess language-specific arithmetic memory networks. |
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| responsibles | Pélissier |
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