Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Generalization, Discrimination, and Extinction

Generalization, Discrimination, and Extinction

Generalization, discrimination, and extinction are key concepts in operant conditioning that influence how behaviors are learned and maintained.
Generalization occurs when a behavior reinforced in one context is performed in similar situations. For instance, a student who studies diligently for calculus and receives excellent grades might apply the same study habits to psychology and history, expecting similar results. Generalization shows how learning in one setting can influence behavior in...

Survival Tree

Survival Tree

Survival trees are a non-parametric method used in survival analysis to model the relationship between a set of covariates and the time until an event of interest occurs, often referred to as the "time-to-event" or "survival time." This method is particularly useful when dealing with censored data, where the event has not occurred for some individuals by the end of the study period, or when the exact time of the event is unknown.
Building a Survival Tree
Constructing a survival tree begins...

Observational Learning

Observational Learning

Albert Bandura's observational learning, also known as imitation or modeling, occurs when a person observes and imitates another's behavior. It is a quicker process than operant conditioning. A well-known example is the Bobo doll study, where children who saw an adult acting aggressively towards the doll were more likely to act aggressively when left alone, compared to those who observed a nonaggressive adult. Many psychologists view observational learning as a form of latent learning because...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Transitions in exercise motive profiles and their association with physical activity adherence among low-active middle-aged adults: An exploratory ancillary analysis.

Psychology of sport and exercise·2026

Same author

A multicomponent behavior change intervention to promote walking in adults after traumatic brain injury: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences·2026

Same author

Physical activity, aerobic fitness, and AD blood biomarkers: The IGNITE study.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association·2026

Same author

Feasibility and exploratory cognitive outcomes of three exercise modalities in oldest-old adults in assisted living facilities: A 24-week pilot randomized controlled trial.

Journal of affective disorders·2026

Same author

Lifespan exposure to hormone therapies and structural brain morphometry in older women.

NeuroImage·2026

Same author

Evaluating the cognitive impact of exergames on community-dwelling older adults beyond laboratory settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Frontiers in dementia·2026

Same journal

Thymidylate synthase inhibitory drugs induce p53-dependent pathways differently.

PloS one·2026

Same journal

Top-down and bottom-up attention for joint pattern classification and reconstruction.

PloS one·2026

Same journal

Short- and long-term scaling behavior of blood pressure and pulse arrival time during sleep in healthy controls and patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

PloS one·2026

Same journal

Double DQN-based secrecy energy efficiency and fairness performance in IRS-assisted NOMA systems with friendly jamming.

PloS one·2026

Same journal

10 recommendations for strengthening citizen science for improved societal and ecological outcomes: A co-produced analysis of challenges and opportunities in the 21st century.

PloS one·2026

Same journal

Paying in public: Peer effects, impression management, and willingness to pay on digital payment platforms.

PloS one·2026

See all related articles

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: May 9, 2026

Combined Shuttle-Box Training with Electrophysiological Cortex Recording and Stimulation as a Tool to Study Perception and Learning

Combined Shuttle-Box Training with Electrophysiological Cortex Recording and Stimulation as a Tool to Study Perception and Learning

Published on: October 22, 2015

Change detection: training and transfer.

John G Gaspar¹, Mark B Neider, Daniel J Simons

¹Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America. jgaspar2@illinois.edu

|July 11, 2013

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Adaptive training improved change detection for trained tasks but did not generalize to new tasks for young and older adults. This suggests specific training enhances performance only in the trained context, not broadly improving change blindness.

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: May 9, 2026

Combined Shuttle-Box Training with Electrophysiological Cortex Recording and Stimulation as a Tool to Study Perception and Learning

Combined Shuttle-Box Training with Electrophysiological Cortex Recording and Stimulation as a Tool to Study Perception and Learning

Published on: October 22, 2015

Area of Science:

Cognitive psychology
Human perception
Aging research

Background:

Change blindness, the failure to notice environmental changes, has significant real-world implications, such as in driving safety.
Improving change detection could mitigate negative consequences of change blindness.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if adaptive training on a change detection task enhances performance in untrained tasks for both young and older adults.
To determine the generalizability of training-induced improvements in change detection.

Main Methods:

Participants (young and older adults) underwent adaptive training on a specific change detection task.
Performance was assessed on both trained and untrained change detection tasks.
Trained groups were compared against active control groups.

Main Results:

Both young and older adults demonstrated improved change detection for the trained objects after training.
No significant improvements were observed in untrained change detection tasks for the training group compared to controls.
Training effects were specific to the trained task and did not generalize.

Conclusions:

Adaptive training effectively enhances change detection performance on the trained task.
Training-induced improvements in change detection do not transfer to untrained tasks.
Cognitive training for change blindness may need to be task-specific to yield broad benefits.