Overshadowed cues have reduced ability to retroactively interfere with other cues

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 313-322

  Vadillo, Miguel A ^a   Orgaz, Cristina ^a   Matute, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associative; Cue competition; Interference; Overshadowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949102017     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Amundson J.C., and Miller R.R. Similarity in spatial origin of information facilitates cue competition and interference. Learning and Motivation 38 (2007) 155-171
2. Barnet R.C., Grahame N.J., and Miller R.R. Temporal encoding as a determinant of blocking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 19 (1993) 327-341
3. Cobos P.L., López F.J., and Luque D. Interference between cues of the same outcome depends on the causal interpretation of the events. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 60 (2007) 369-386
4. De Houwer J., and Beckers T. Secondary task difficulty modulates forward blocking in human contingency learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 56B (2003) 345-357
5. De Houwer J., Vandorpe S., and Beckers T. On the role of controlled cognitive processes in human associative learning. In: Wills A. (Ed). New directions in human associative learning (2005), Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 41-63
6. Denniston J.C., Savastano H.I., and Miller R.R. The extended comparator hypothesis: Learning by contiguity, responding by relative strength. In: Mowrer R.R., and Klein S.B. (Eds). Handbook of contemporary learning theories (2001), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 65-117
7. Dickinson A., and Burke J. Within-compound associations mediate the retrospective revaluation of causality judgements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 49B (1996) 60-80
8. Dickinson A., Shanks D.R., and Evenden J. Judgement of act-outcome contingency: The role of selective attribution. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 36A (1984) 29-50
9. Escobar M., Matute H., and Miller R.R. Cues trained apart compete for behavioral control in rats: Convergence with the associative interference literature. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 130 (2001) 97-115
10. Escobar M., and Miller R.R. Timing in retroactive interference. Learning & Behavior 31 (2003) 257-272
11. Escobar M., Pineño O., and Matute H. A comparison between elemental and compound training of cues in retrospective revaluation. Animal Learning & Behavior 30 (2002) 228-238
12. Fazio R.H., Sanbonmatsu D.M., Powell M.C., and Kardes F.R. On the automatic activation of attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 50 (1986) 229-238
13. Greenwald A.G., McGhee D.E., and Schwartz J.L.K. Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The implicit association test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74 (1998) 1464-1480
14. Kamin, L. J. (1968). "Attention-like" processes in classical conditioning. In M. R. Jones (Ed.), Miami symposium on the prediction of behavior: Aversive stimulation (pp. 9-31). Miami, Fl.: University of Miami Press.
15. Le Pelley M.E., Oakeshott S.M., and McLaren I.P.L. Blocking and unblocking in human causal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 31 (2005) 56-70
16. Luque D., Cobos P.L., and López F.J. Interference between cues requires a causal scenario: Favourable evidence for causal reasoning models in learning processes. Learning and Motivation 39 (2008) 196-208
17. Matute H., and Pineño O. Cue competition in the absence of compound training: Its relation to paradigms of interference between outcomes. In: Medin D.L. (Ed). The psychology of learning and motivation Vol. 38 (1998), Academic Press, San Diego, CA 45-81
18. Matute H., and Pineño O. Stimulus competition in the absence of compound conditioning. Animal Learning & Behavior 26 (1998) 3-14
19. Miller R.R., and Escobar M. Associative interference between cues and between outcomes presented together and presented apart: An integration. Behavioural Processes 57 (2002) 163-185
20. Miller R.R., and Matzel L.D. The comparator hypothesis: A response rule for the expression of associations. In: Bower G.H. (Ed). The psychology of learning and motivation Vol. 22 (1988), Academic Press, San Diego, CA 51-92
21. Pavlov I.P. Conditioned reflexes (1927), Oxford University Press, London
22. Rescorla R.A., and Wagner A.R. A theory of Pavlovian conditioning: Variations in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement. In: Black A.H., and Prokasy W.F. (Eds). Classical conditioning II: Current research and theory (1972), Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York 64-99
23. Shanks D.R. Continuous monitoring of human contingency judgment across trials. Memory & Cognition 13 (1985) 158-167
24. Slamecka N.J., and Ceraso J. Retroactive and proactive inhibition of verbal learning. Psychological Bulletin 57 (1960) 449-475
25. Stout S.C., Chang R., and Miller R.R. Trial spacing is a determinant of cue interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 29 (2003) 23-38
26. Stout S.C., and Miller R.R. Sometimes-competing retrieval (SOCR): A formalization of the comparator hypothesis. Psychological Review 114 (2007) 759-783
27. Urcelay G.P., and Miller R.R. Counteraction between overshadowing and degraded contingency treatments: Support for the extended comparator hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 32 (2006) 21-32
28. Vadillo M.A., Castro L., Matute H., and Wasserman E.A. Backward blocking: The role of within-compound associations and interference between cues trained apart. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 61 (2008) 185-193
29. Vandorpe, S., & De Houwer, J. (2006). The implicit association test as a measure of acquired associative strength between cause and effect in human causal learning. Paper presented at the XVIII annual meeting of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology. Málaga, Spain.
30. Van Hamme L.J., and Wasserman E.A. Cue competition in causality judgments: The role of nonpresentation of compound stimulus elements. Learning and Motivation 25 (1994) 127-151
31. Wagner A.R. SOP: A model of automatic memory processing in animal behavior. In: Spear N.E., and Miller R.R. (Eds). Information processing in animals: Memory mechanisms (1981), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 5-47
32. Wagner A.R., Logan F.A., Haberlandt K., and Price T. Stimulus selection in animal discrimination learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology 76 (1968) 171-180
33. Wasserman E.A. Attribution of causality to common and distinctive elements of compound stimuli. Psychological Science 1 (1990) 298-302
34. Wheeler D.S., and Miller R.R. Interactions between retroactive-interference and context-mediated treatments that impair Pavlovian conditioned responding. Learning & Behavior 35 (2007) 27-35