UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title Everyday Constraints on Learning: Children's and Adult's Development of the Major/Minor Distinction Publication Date Everyday Constraints on Learning: Children's and Adults' Development of the Major/Minor Distinction

Marco Palmonari, Antonio Rizzo, Clarissa Thompson, John Opfer
2005 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society   unpublished
Categorization of musical excerpts was accurately predicted by subjects' association of emotional valence with musical properties. The strength of this association prior to training predicted greater category knowledge, predicted types of errors during category learning, and predicted age differences in learning. Training in this association led to as much learning as feedback did.
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