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Intersensory Transfer of a Learned Shape Discrimination

Intersensory transfer of training was systematically investigated for visual to tactual and tactual to visual situations. College students were trained in one modality on a successive-shape-discrimination task, then transferred to the opposite modality to perform a related-shape-discrimination task. The investigation showed successful transfer in both directions, Transfer from vision to touch was specific to the situation wherein all discriminata were exactly the same In the two tasks. In contrast, transfer from touch to vision appeared to be a function of the subjects' ability to retain some type of schematic representation of the primary object as a mediational device to facilitate visual discrimination between the primary object and one of a slightly different shape.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663166
Date08 1900
CreatorsTaylor, Ronald D.
ContributorsKennelly, Kevin J., Haynes, Jack Read
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 32 leaves: ill., Text
RightsPublic, Taylor, Ronald D., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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