Uncertainty and predictiveness determine attention to cues during human associative learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2175-2199

  Beesley, Tom ^a   Nguyen, Katherine P ^a   Pearson, Daniel ^a   Le Pelley, Mike E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Associabilty; Associative learning; Attention; Eye tracking; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84940574986     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2015.1009919     Document Type: Article

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