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Humans learned to name three sets of braille patterns presented visually. After learning a practice set by traditional discrimination training, half the subjects learned a new set by fading, and the remaining subjects learned them by traditional discrimination training. Finally, all subjects learned a third set of new patterns by traditional discrimination training. Subjects who learned the second set by fading learned the third set faster than did subjects who learned the second set by traditional means. This effect was explained in terms of the differential strengthening of observing behavior by fading and by traditional discrimination training.
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This research was supported by PSC/BHE Faculty Research Award 11489E and by a grant from the President of the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Margaret Bradley, Robert Rivera, Judith Storch, James Stroud, and Dennis Wittek assisted in conducting the research.
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Fields, L. Enhanced learning of new discriminations after stimulus fading. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 15, 327–330 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334548
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