An Isolation Effect in Pattern Perception Similar to That in Serial Learning

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The hypothesis was that the mechanisms involved in serial learning which produce the characteristic bowed curve of errors also operate in the perception of tachistoscopic patterns to determine the distribution of errors among element-positions. If the mechanisms are in fact the same, isolation of an element in a tachistoscopic pattern will alter the distribution of errors among elements in the same manner that isolation changes the bowed curve of serial learning. Since an isolation effect has not previously been found when O does not know of the isolation before the exposure, a postulate of the present experiment is that prior knowledge of the isolation is critical for the isolation effect. Therefore, in this study, in which O knew of the isolation before exposure of the pattern, it was predicted that there would be a relative decrease in errors for the isolated element. This was the result.

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