Apologies for multiple postings
Hi!
I am a doctoral student in the IAM (Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia)
Group
at the University of Southampton, UK. I am doing my research in the field
of
category learning under the supervision of Professor Stevan Harnad. For my
study, I need as many people as possible to take part in this pilot study.
This experiment involves seeing a series of nonsense strings of 8
syllables,
such as LaRaTaBa-PaWaSaGa. Some of these strings are ruleful (i.e. follow
a
particular rule), and some are unruleful (do not follow the rule). Your
task is to try and recognise which strings are ruleful and which are
unruleful. I am trying to find out if you can learn to do this in the
given
number of trials, or if you need more trials, an easier rule, etc.
This experiment is not testing your intelligence or your personality, I am
solely interested in whether or not the rule is learnable in the given
amount of trials. You will receive more detailed instructions by following
the link below. It will take you around 20-30 minutes to complete.
Although I cannot afford to pay every participant, if you complete the
experiment, you will have the chance of winning 100 British pounds. The
experiment is run over the Internet, so you can do it whenever and
wherever
you want, as long as you have an Internet connection and Java 1.4
installed
(there is a link on the first page of the experiment, where you can check
if
you have the latest version, and download it if necessary), and around 30
minutes to spare....
I would be very grateful if as many people as possible could take part in
the experiment. Also, if those who do take part could let me know if there
were any problems, e.g. with comprehension of the instructions or
debriefing
at the end, or with loading the program, etc. or any other
remarks/ideas/criticism/suggestions that may be helpful.
The experiment is at
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mtj00r/webpage/experiment.htm
Thank you very much,
Martina Johnson
PS - If there is anyone out there who has already taken part in one of my
experiments, first of all a big thank you, and you should not take part
again as you may be biased. Thanks!
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Martina T. Johnson
IAM Group
ECS Department
Southampton University
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)2380 594583
Fax: +44 (0)2380 592865
email: m.t.johnson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mtj00r
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