Relative salience versus relative validity: Cue salience influences blocking in human associative learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 116-132

  Le Pelley, Mike E ^a   Beesley, Tom ^a   Griffiths, Oren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Blocking; Cue competition; Eye tracking; Salience

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892488289     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xan0000006     Document Type: Article

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