Are efficient learners of verbal stimuli also efficient and precise learners of visuospatial stimuli
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21602151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher L Zerr (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA), C Zerr (0000-0001-9196-5075, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author), Thomas Spaventa (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA), Kathleen B McDermott (0000-0003-1736-5674, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 675-692 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0965-8211 • E-ISSN: 1464-0686 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09658211.2021.1933039 |
| PMID | 34057036 |
| OpenAlex | W3164763338 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
People differ in how quickly they learn information and how long they remember it, and these two variables are correlated such that people who learn more quickly tend to retain more of the newly learned information. Zerr and colleagues [2018. Learning efficiency: Identifying individual differences in learning rate and retention in healthy adults. Psychological Science, 29(9), 1436–1450] termed the relation between learning rate and retention as learning efficiency, with more efficient learners having both a faster acquisition rate and better memory performance after a delay. Zerr et al. also demonstrated in separate experiments that how efficiently someone learns is stable across a range of days and years with the same kind of stimuli. The current experiments (combined N = 231) replicate the finding that quicker learning coincides with better retention and demonstrate that the correlation extends to multiple types of materials. We also address the generalisability of learning efficiency: A person’s efficiency with learning Lithuanian-English (verbal-verbal) pairs predicts their efficiency with Chinese-English (visuospatial-verbal) and (to a lesser extent) object-location (visuospatial-visuospatial) paired associates. Finally, we examine whether quicker learners also remember material more precisely by using a continuous measure of recall accuracy with object-location pairs
Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Lithuanian · Recall · Computer Science · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Memory Processes and Influences · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |