At 3:24 PM -0400 6/29/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Since college in the late 60s I have ridden bikes with hand brakes. Yet
>today when I was riding on a nature trail near the college, with my hand
>resting on the brake I was startled by a squirrel and immediately tried to
>brake with the pedal. Earlier on the same ride i had slowed successfully
>for other squirrels that gave me more warning. My speculation is that even
>though all of my recent experience has been using hand brakes, my
>experience with panic stops were in my wilder youthful days when I had pedal
>brakes.
>Is this the same as or similar to state-dependent learning ? Perhaps I am
>merely regressing.
If one views 'state-dependent' learning as a special case of
context-specific learning, then they would be related. This seems
reasonable to me, since _all_ learning occurs in _some_ context.
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Department 507-389-6217 *
* "The University formerly known as Mankato State" *
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