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The term serial learning covers a broad range of phenomena, in no small part because different traditions in psychology disagree about the process and content of such learning. A comprehensive overview of the comparative study of serial learning is therefore best served by considering these many perspectives. This chapter first examines the two major approaches to serial learning used in comparative research. The first variety trains subjects to use implicit serial orderings (eg, in the study of transitive inference), in which stimulus ordering must be inferred from feedback. The second form trains explicit serial ordering (eg, the simultaneous chain), such that ordered stimuli remain available to the senses throughout a trial, permitting them to be processed in parallel. A comprehensive account of serial learning can only be accomplished through joint consideration of these two paradigms. In addition, a variety of other …