Shaping Relational Category-Learning With Visuospatial Priming

Katherine Livins	University of California, Merced
Michael Spivey	University of California, Merced
Leonidas Doumas	University of Edinburgh

Abstract

While relational reasoning has been described as a process at the heart of human cognition, the degree to which relational representations can be primed remains an open debate. This paper will present a category-learning experiment that shows that the learning of spatial relations (above and below) can be primed using a subtle visuospatial stimulus that may capture exogenous attention to produce saccades.

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