Intersensory Transfer of a Learned Shape Discrimination
Description:
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 contr…
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Date:
August 1974
Creator:
Taylor, Ronald D.
Partner:
UNT Libraries