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Attention and expectation in human predictive learning: The role of uncertainty

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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:50 authored by Lee Hogarth, Anthony Dickinson, Alison Alison, Craig Brown, Dora Duka
Three localized, visual pattern stimuli were trained as predictive signals of auditory outcomes. One signal partially predicted an aversive noise in Experiment 1 and a neutral tone in Experiment 2, whereas the other signals consistently predicted either the occurrence or absence of the noise. The expectation of the noise was measured during each signal presentation, and only participants for whom this expectation demonstrated contingency knowledge showed differential attention to the signals. Importantly, when attention was measured by visual fixations, the contingency-aware group attended more to the partially predictive signal than to the consistent predictors in both experiments. This profile of visual attention supports the Pearce and Hall (1980) theory of the role of attention in associative learning.

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  • Published

Journal

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

ISSN

1747-0218

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

11

Volume

61

Page range

1658-1668

Pages

11.0

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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