Learning from implicit learning literature: Comment on Shea, Wulf, Whitacre, and Park (2001)
Authors:
Pierre Perruchet a;
Stephanie Chambaron a;
Carole Ferrel-Chapus a
| Affiliation: | a University of Burgundy, Dijon, France. |
DOI:
10.1080/02724980244000657
Publication Frequency:
8 issues per year
Published in:
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A,
Volume
56,
Issue
5
July
2003
, pages 769
- 778
Number of References: 32
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Now published as: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
The circumstances under which this title is published have changed:
Reason for change: merged
Date of change: 2006
New ISSN: 1747-0218
New EISSN: 1747-1226
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Abstract
In their analysis of complex motor skill learning, Shea, Wulf, Whitacre, and Park (2001) have overlooked one of the most robust conclusions of the experimental studies on implicit learning conducted during the last decade--namely that participants usually learn things that are different from those that the experimenter expected them to learn. Weshow that the available literature on implicit learning strongly suggests that the improved performance in Shea et al.'s Experiments 1 and 2 (and similar earlier experiments, e.g., Wulf & Schmidt, 1997) was due to the exploitation of regularities in the target pattern different from those on which the postexperimental interview focused. This rules out the conclusions drawn from the failure of this interview to reveal any explicit knowledge about the task structure on the part of the participants. Similarly, because the information about the task structure provided to an instructed group of participants in Shea et al.'s Experiment 2 did not concern the regularities presumably exploited by the standard, so-called implicit, group, Shea et al.'s claim that explicit knowledge may be less effective than implicit knowledge is misleading.
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