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    "pk": 29364,
    "title": "How a-priori biases affect sequence learning in a serial reaction time task",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The ability to chain together sequences of information and\naction is pivotal to everyday acquisition of skills. Despite\nextensive research of sequence learning, little focus has been\ngiven to individual performance in standard tasks measuring\nthis capability. As a result, little is known regarding what\nknowledge participants gain during such tasks. In the current\nwork, an individual- and item-based analysis is performed of\neye movements that occur during a spatial sequence learning\ntask and reflect anticipation of upcoming target locations. We\nshow that the knowledge participants acquire during the task\nis tightly linked to a-priori response biases they bring into the\nexperiment. Results suggest that a-priori biases may be a\nsizeable influence on performance in learning experiments,\nthat tends to be overlooked. Implications for designing and\nreading studies of sequence learning are discussed.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "sequence learning; SRT; biases; prior knowledge;\nindividual differences"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Human Learning",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8866617c",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Amir",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tal",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Columbia University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Eli",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vakil",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Bar Ilan University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29364/galley/19225/download/"
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    ]
}