INTRODUCTION
Learning is a human phenomenon where performance improves with experience. There are a number of reasons for task improvement. As tasks are repeated, elements of the task are: better remembered, cues are more clearly detected, skills are sharpened, eye-hand coordinations are more tightly coupled, transitions between successive tasks are smoothed, and relationships between task elements are discovered. Barnes and Amrine (1942), Knowles and Bell (1950), Hancock and Foulke (1966), Snoddy (1926), and Wickens (1992) have described these and other sources of human performance change. All these causes of individual person improvement manifest themselves in faster performance times, fewer errors, less effort, and there is often a better disposition of the person as a result.
Learning is implied by performance changes due primarily to experience. Changes in the methods of performing a task, replacing human activities with machines, imparting information about the job, training,...
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Buck, J.R. (2001). Learning . In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_525
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