PSYCH 9B Chapter Notes - Chapter Supp.: Perceptual Learning
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Learning in adult humans sustained and enhanced by sleep amplifies memory performance and boosts generalization. Little known about the role of sleep in infants" learning and memory: sleep-wake state organization is a predictor of cognitive development in infancy. Naps beneficial for visual perceptual learning as a night of sleep. A: utterances beginning with pel ended in jic, and those beginning with vot ended in rud. B: opposite of a; pel ended in rud, and vot ended in jic. A and b could be distinguished only by noting the nonadjacent relationship between first and third words: tested infants 4 hrs after exposure to artificial language. Group 1: infants who napped between familiarization and test. Group 2: infants who did not nap. Infants look differentially to familiar vs unfamiliar strings typically differential looking times reflect memory of specific nonadjacent word pairs in familiar strings of the artificial language.
