Uengoer, Metin, Lachnit, Harald, Lotz, Anja, Koenig, Stephan and Pearce, John Martindale ![]() |
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 |
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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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