Non-adjacent auditory sequence learning across development and primate species

Two hearing impaired groups, one diagnosed as deaf, the other as aphasic, at two age levels, CA 6–7 and CA 10–11, with 8 subjects in each group, were compared to a control hearing group of 16 subjects at each age level. All subjects were given four paired-associate tasks: a visual discrete task with six associations (DPA) and three 2- to 6-sequence tasks with combinatory sequences as stimuli; one sequence task showed visual stimuli in simultaneous presentation (SIM), another in successive (SUC), and a third presented auditory successive sequences (AUD). The main results indicated no differences between aphasic and deaf except that the younger aphasics were poorer on AUD. The younger hearing-impaired were equal to controls on DPA, but poorer on SUC and AUD. For all groups SIM and for controls also AUD was easier than SUC.

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Auditory Sequence Learning in Children

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.1101.179 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 179-188

Author(s):

Lois Huffman ◽

Leija McReynolds

Keyword(s):

Preschool Children ◽

Visual Stimulus ◽

Sequence Learning ◽

Verbal Stimulus ◽

Single Item ◽

Auditory Sequence ◽

Group I ◽

Terminal Behavior ◽

Time Required ◽

Three Phases

Two procedures were used for training preschool children to emit a three-sequence response to a three-sequence verbal stimulus. For the four children in Group I the verbal stimulus was presented simultaneously with the visual stimulus, whereas the four children in Group II were presented with the verbal stimulus only once preceding the presentation of the visual stimulus. Training was programmed in three phases starting with a single item and gradually increasing to the three-item terminal behavior. Results indicate that the procedures used to train the Group I children were more efficient in terms of number of trials and amount of time required to complete the program.

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Hebbian Auditory Sequence Learning: The Role of Passive Perceptual Processes

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e537052012-458 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Robert W. Hughes ◽

Dylan M. Jones

Keyword(s):

Sequence Learning ◽

Auditory Sequence

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Nonhuman sequence learning findings argue against Hoerl and McCormack's two systems of temporal cognition

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1900044x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Benjamin J. De Corte ◽

Edward A. Wasserman

Keyword(s):

Sequence Learning ◽

Past Research ◽

Ordinal Position ◽

Temporal Cognition ◽

Two Systems

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack propose that animals learn sequences through an entrainment-like process, rather than tracking the temporal addresses of each event in a given sequence. However, past research suggests that animals form “temporal maps” of sequential events and also comprehend the concept of ordinal position. These findings suggest that a clarification or qualification of the authors’ hypothesis is needed.

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