| Optimizing the Speed, Durability, and Transferability of Training |
APR 2005 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Alice F. Healy; James A. Kole; Erica L. Wohldmann; Carolyn J. Buck- Gengler; James T. Parker; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER
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 | Our research program aims to develop principles that optimize simultaneously all three characteristics of training -- speed, durability, and transferability of learned knowledge and skills. Such simultaneous optimization would not necessarily optimize any one characteristic alone but would require instead a balanced consideration of all three characteristics. The balance of the characteristics of training is not fixed across tasks or even within a given task but rather can depend on ... |
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| Optimizing the Long-Term Retention of Skills: Structural and Analytic Approaches to Skill Maintenance. Annual Report, 1991-1992 |
APR 1999 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Alice F. Healy; K. A. Ericsson; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER
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| This research program seeks to identify the characteristics of knowledge and skill which are most resistant to decay due to disuse. The general goal is to elucidate principles which will specify those aspects of a complex skill that resist decay over periods of disuse and how they are distinguishable from more fragile components. The research program can be divided into two complementary parts. The first part is concerned with describing ... |
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| Optimizing the Long-Term Retention of Skills: Structural and Analytic Approaches to Skill Maintenance III |
JUN 91 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Alice F. Healy; K. A. Ericsson; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER
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| This research program identifies the characteristics of knowledge and skill most resistant to decay because of disuse. The program is divided into analytic and structural approaches. Two lines of research are used to investigate skill retention and maintenance using the analytic approach. The first investigates different laboratory analogues of component military skills, and the second investigates parallel natural skills learned by the college population during prior education. We have developed ... |
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| Optimizing the Long-Term Retention of Skills: Structural and Analytic Approaches to Skill Maintenance |
AUG 90 |
135 pages |
| Authors:
Alice F. Healy; K. A. Ericsson; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER
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| This research program seeks to identify the characteristics of knowledge and skill which are most resistant to decay due to disuse. Our research can be divided into two complementary parts. The first part is concerned with experimental analysis of factors influencing and improving retention of skill components. The second part is concerned with analysis and assessment of the structure of acquired memory and skills and how to monitor differential retention ... |
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| Optimizing the Long-Term Retention of Skills: Structural and Analytic Approaches to Skill Maintenance |
JUL 90 |
155 pages |
| Authors:
Alice F. Healy; K. A. Ericsson; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER
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| This research program seeks to identify the characteristics of knowledge and skill most resistant to decay due to disuse. The program is divided into analytic and structural approaches. We performed two types of research to investigate skill retention and maintenance using the analytic approach. The first investigated different laboratory analogues of component military skills; the second investigated parallel natural skills learned by the college population during their prior education. We ... |
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| Optimizing the Long Term Retention of Skills: Structural and Analytic Approaches to Skill Maintenance |
OCT 87 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Alice F. Healy; K. A. Ericsson; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER
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| The program described in this research note seeks to identify characteristics of knowledge and skills which are most resistant to decay due to disuse. The program is divided into analytic and structural approaches. The first line of research for investigating skills retention using the analytic approach investigates laboratory analogues to the component skills of electronic technicians. The second approach investigates parallel natural skills learned by former college students. We have ... |
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| Process Models of Reading: Some Data on the Initiation of Processes |
DEC 1982 |
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| Authors:
Sheryl Young; Linda S. Angell; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER INST OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
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 | Data are presented to demonstrate that resource relocation during reading can occur in response to task demands. These relocations can compensate for experimentally induced lower level deficits. Further, these reallocations appear to operate both top-down and bottom-up. The data are clearly inconsistent with serial and parallel noninteractive models of reading. The necessity of including resource allocations and compensatory resource relocation provisions in interactive models of reading is emphasized. |
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| Idea Organization and Idea Recall |
NOV 1982 |
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| Authors:
S. R. Young; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER INST OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
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| The effects of organizing ideas to produce a written text are investigated and discussed in terms of models of long term memory and of composition. Subjects generated ideas relevant to a specific topic on Day 1. Then they organized their ideas and wrote a coherent text on the topic. Twenty four hours later, subjects tended to free recall groups of ideas that had been clustered together during the text organization ... |
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| Text-Based Decisions: Changes in the Availability of Facts Due to Instructions and the Passage of Time |
AUG 1982 |
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| Authors:
Denise Dellarosa; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER INST OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
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| A study was conducted to examine the relationship between availability of information in memory and decisional accuracy. Subjects were required to read three texts while engaging in a pre-determined schema building task, and to make decisions about them. Relative availability of information was manipulated by repeating certain information within the texts, by requiring decisions to be made either immediately after reading the texts or 24 hours later, and by giving ... |
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| Reading Under the Influence of Decision Making |
APR 1982 |
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| Authors:
Steven Antos; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER INST OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
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| Two experiments investigated how potent decision relevant information in texts affects subsequent processing of that text. University freshmen and sophomores read texts consisting of a series of facts relevant to the worth of stock in a fictitious company. In Experiment 1, fact texts were read for the explicit purpose of making a decision to purchase or not purchase stock in the company. When the potent information occurred in the middle ... |
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| Comprehension and Analysis of Information in Text. IV. Decision and Verification Processes |
MAY 1981 |
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| Authors:
Steve Antos; Ely Kozminsky; Ben Gurion; Lyle E. Bourne Jr; COLORADO UNIV AT BOULDER INST OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
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| Reading texts for the purpose of making decisions was studied in a laboratory analog of a complex, natural, information-analytic domain. Subjects acting as stock brokers were trained in the first two sessions to categorize and evaluate stock report-type information. In addition, they learned to infer information from text-explicit facts. In Session three, subjects read texts and made decisions to Buy or Not Buy based on a conjuntive rule that was ... |
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