Explicit instructions and consolidation promote rewiring of automatic behaviors in the human mind

Abstract One major challenge in human behavior and brain sciences is to understand how we can rewire already existing perceptual, motor, cognitive, and social skills or habits. Here we aimed to characterize one aspect of rewiring, namely, how we can update our knowledge of sequential/statistical reg...

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Autores principales: Emese Szegedi-Hallgató, Karolina Janacsek, Teodóra Vékony, Lia Andrea Tasi, Leila Kerepes, Emőke Adrienn Hompoth, Anna Bálint, Dezső Németh
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/1de2d28fcd42433e8526a4be89a42ab8
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Sumario:Abstract One major challenge in human behavior and brain sciences is to understand how we can rewire already existing perceptual, motor, cognitive, and social skills or habits. Here we aimed to characterize one aspect of rewiring, namely, how we can update our knowledge of sequential/statistical regularities when they change. The dynamics of rewiring was explored from learning to consolidation using a unique experimental design which is suitable to capture the effect of implicit and explicit processing and the proactive and retroactive interference. Our results indicate that humans can rewire their knowledge of such regularities incidentally, and consolidation has a critical role in this process. Moreover, old and new knowledge can coexist, leading to effective adaptivity of the human mind in the changing environment, although the execution of the recently acquired knowledge may be more fluent than the execution of the previously learned one. These findings can contribute to a better understanding of the cognitive processes underlying behavior change, and can provide insights into how we can boost behavior change in various contexts, such as sports, educational settings or psychotherapy.