Topic: blocked training

Understanding how the brain continuously learns and maintains memories is a challenging problem. Sensorimotor learning provided a rich quantitative framework for approaching this question. Here we build on a recent theoretical model, COIN (Heald, Lengyel, and Wolpert 2021), that has been successful in unifying motor learning paradigms, to understand how training schedules affect learning of multiple memories. A classic result in motor learning (Shea and Morgan 1979) showed that training tasks A and B in a blocked order (AAABBB) results in faster learning of A and B but poorer retention than in

Understanding how humans form knowledge structures from a stream of information is a question with implications for both human cognition and artificial intelligence. Structural learning is affected by the training regime, which can be either blocked into trials of similar forms or interleaved into trials of different forms. Previous studies show mixed results with some showing that blocked regimes improve different types of learning [1, 2, 3], while others show advantages of blocked regimes [4, 5, 6]. Additionally, few studies investigated the effect of regime on structural learning specifical