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 before the 31st July 2003, 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! ___________________________________________ 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] webpage: www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mtj00r ___________________________________________
