Investigating the role of instructional focus in incidental pattern learning.

J Gen Psychol

Learning Research and Development Center, 3939 O'Hara Street, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.

Published: March 2010

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  • The authors explored how instructional focus influences incidental pattern learning through a combination of a serial reaction time task and an artificial grammar learning task.
  • In Experiment 1, participants either prioritized memorizing letter strings while responding to stimuli locations or did the opposite; Experiment 2 had participants perform only one task at a time.
  • The findings indicated that instructional focus significantly affected both the level of learning and the acquisition of explicit knowledge about the patterns, with variations depending on the type of stimuli used.

Article Abstract

The authors used a novel dual-component training procedure that combined a serial reaction time task and an artificial grammar learning task to investigate the role of instructional focus in incidental pattern learning. In Experiment 1, participants either memorized letter strings as a primary task and reacted to the stimuli locations as a secondary task or vice versa. In Experiment 2, participants were given the same dual-component stimuli but performed only one of the two training tasks. Instructional focus affected the amount of learning and the likelihood of acquiring explicit knowledge of the underlying pattern. However, the effect of instructional focus varied for the different types of stimuli. These results are discussed in terms of the role of focused attention in incidental learning.

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