Contextual control of attentional allocation in human discrimination learning

Uengoer, Metin, Lachnit, Harald, Lotz, Anja, Koenig, Stephan and Pearce, John Martindale ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-8650 2013. Contextual control of attentional allocation in human discrimination learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 39 (1) , pp. 56-66. 10.1037/a0030599

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Abstract

In 3 human predictive learning experiments, we investigated whether the allocation of attention can come under the control of contextual stimuli. In each experiment, participants initially received a conditional discrimination for which one set of cues was trained as relevant in Context 1 and irrelevant in Context 2, and another set was relevant in Context 2 and irrelevant in Context 1. For Experiments 1 and 2, we observed that a second discrimination based on cues that had previously been trained as relevant in Context 1 during the conditional discrimination was acquired more rapidly in Context 1 than in Context 2. Experiment 3 revealed a similar outcome when new stimuli from the original dimensions were used in the test stage. Our results support the view that the associability of a stimulus can be controlled by the stimuli that accompany it.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	1939-2184
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 08:07
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/51507

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