Summary: Psychological Research
DOI 10.1007/s00426-011-0402-z
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Response-mode shifts during sequence learning of macaque
monkeys
Dennis Rünger · F. Gregory Ashby ·
Nathalie Picard · Peter L. Strick
Received: 29 August 2011 / Accepted: 29 November 2011
© Springer-Verlag 2011
Abstract Incidental sequence learning has been concep-
tualized as involving a shift from stimulus-based to plan-
based performance (e.g., Tubauet et al. in Journal of Exper-
imental Psychology: General 136:43­63, 2007). We ana-
lyzed the response time (RT) data of two macaque monkeys
that were trained for thousands of trials on a sequential
reaching task in a study by Matsuzaka et al. in Journal of
Neurophysiology 97, 1819­1832 (2007). The animals
learned to respond predictively to a repeating 3-element
sequence. During a transitional period, RT distributions

Source: Ashby, F. Gregory - Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara

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