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Rule-Based Category Learning In Children: The Role Of Inhibitory Control, Rahel R. Rabi
Rule-Based Category Learning In Children: The Role Of Inhibitory Control, Rahel R. Rabi
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The present study examined category learning in relation to inhibitory control and working memory in children and adults. Results revealed that categorization performance improved with age. Young children struggled with rule learning, many older children were successful at rule learning, and most adults had no difficulty with the task. Model-based analyses suggested that performance differences were due to young children’s inability to inhibit the salient, but irrelevant rule. Interestingly, when the analyses focused only on older children and adults who used the task appropriate strategy, the age-related rule-based deficit disappeared. Also, results revealed that successful performance on the categorization task …