広島大学教育学部紀要. 第一部, 心理学 Issue 48
published_at 2000-03-10

系列反応時間課題における学習の指標に関する考察

How to evaluate sequence learning in a serial reaction time task
Yamamoto Fumie
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Abstract
To investigate a human sequential learning Nissen & Bullemer (1987) developed a serial reaction time task. This task has been used in dual-task situations to evaluate the role of attention in acquisition of the event sequence. In this article, we pointed out some problems of performance measures of learning, such as reaction times and error rates. The ambiguity of the relationship between performance measures and psychological processes supposed to occur in the task results in the disagreement among the interpretations of the results obtained in a variety of experiments. We suggest the usefulness of psychophysiological measures that could directly reflect our brain's activities, and introduce a several studies where some electrophysiological measures were devised to explore the explicit and implicit aspects of sequential learning.
Keywords
sequential learning
serial reaction time task
attention
behavioral and psychophysiological measures