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A Developmental Trajectory of Latent Inhibition (2024)
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Latent inhibition is said to occur when learning about the relationship between a cue and an outcome proceeds more readily when the cue is novel relative to when the cue has been rendered familiar through mere preexposure. Previous studies suggest th... Read More about A Developmental Trajectory of Latent Inhibition.

Schizotypy dimensions do not predict overshadowing (2023)
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When two cues are presented together and reliably predict an outcome (AB-O1) an “overshadowing” effect is typically observed. That is, the relationship between these cues and the outcome is learned about less well than a cue presented on its own with... Read More about Schizotypy dimensions do not predict overshadowing.

Overshadowing, but not relative validity, between the elements of an outcome during human associative learning (2023)
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Overshadowing and relative validity constitute two phenomena that inspired the development of the Rescorla-Wagner model in 1972. They demonstrate that cues will interact with one another for an association with the presence or absence of an outcome.... Read More about Overshadowing, but not relative validity, between the elements of an outcome during human associative learning.

Evaluating the effectiveness of a board game to learn biological psychology facts (2023)
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Using games in a classroom setting to help engagement and learning is becoming popular, but controlled investigations into the benefits of games are few. Games are potentially a way to incorporate retrieval practice into a class and garner subsequent... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of a board game to learn biological psychology facts.

The Developmental Trajectories of Children’s Reorientation to Global and Local Properties of Environmental Geometry (2022)
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The way in which organisms represent the shape of their environments during navigation has been debated in cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychology. While there is evidence that adult humans encode the entire boundary shape of an environm... Read More about The Developmental Trajectories of Children’s Reorientation to Global and Local Properties of Environmental Geometry.

The role of prediction in learned predictiveness. (2022)
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Learning permits even relatively uninteresting stimuli to capture attention if they are established as predictors of important outcomes. Associative theories explain this “learned predictiveness” effect by positing that attention is a function of the... Read More about The role of prediction in learned predictiveness..

Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change (2022)
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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major public health challenge. Although theoretically informed public health campaigns are more effective for changing behaviour, there is little evidence of their use when campaigns are commissioned to th... Read More about Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change.

High Schizotypy Predicts Emotion Recognition Independently of Negative Affect (2021)
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Introduction: Deficits in Emotion Recognition (ER) contribute significantly to poorer functional outcomes in people with schizophrenia. However, rather than reflecting a core symptom of schizophrenia, reduced ER has been suggested to reflect increase... Read More about High Schizotypy Predicts Emotion Recognition Independently of Negative Affect.

Interactions between the elements of an outcome in human associative learning (2020)
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Crossing boundaries: global reorientation following transfer from the inside to the outside of an arena (2019)
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In two spatial navigation experiments, human participants were asked to find a hidden goal (a Wi-Fi signal) that was located in one of the right-angled corners of a kite-shaped (Experiment 1) or a cross-shaped (Experiment 2) virtual environment. Goal... Read More about Crossing boundaries: global reorientation following transfer from the inside to the outside of an arena.

Thinking outside of the box II: disrupting the cognitive map (2018)
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A number of influential spatial learning theories posit that organisms encode a viewpoint independent (i.e. allocentric) representation of the global boundary shape of their environment in order to support spatial reorientation and place learning. In... Read More about Thinking outside of the box II: disrupting the cognitive map.

Learned changes in outcome associability (2017)
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When a cue reliably predicts an outcome, the associability of that cue will change. Associative theories of learning propose this change will persist even when the same cue is paired with a different outcome. These theories, however, do not extend th... Read More about Learned changes in outcome associability.

Thinking outside of the box: transfer of shape-based reorientation across the boundary of an arena (2016)
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The way in which human and non-human animals represent the shape of their environments remains a contentious issue. According to local theories of shape learning, organisms encode the local geometric features of the environment that signal a goal loc... Read More about Thinking outside of the box: transfer of shape-based reorientation across the boundary of an arena.

Enhanced latent inhibition in high schizotypy individuals (2015)
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Latent inhibition refers to a retardation in learning about a stimulus that has been rendered familiar by non-reinforced preexposure, relative to a non-preexposed stimulus. Latent inhibition has been shown to be inversely correlated with schizotypy,... Read More about Enhanced latent inhibition in high schizotypy individuals.

Shape shifting: Local landmarks interfere with navigation by, and recognition of, global shape (2014)
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An influential theory of spatial navigation states that the boundary shape of an environment is preferentially encoded over and above other spatial cues, such that it is impervious to interference from alternative sources of information. We explored... Read More about Shape shifting: Local landmarks interfere with navigation by, and recognition of, global shape.

Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise (2013)
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Two appetitive conditioning experiments with rats investigated the mechanisms and properties of unblocking that results from the surprising omission of an expected post-trial unconditioned stimulus (US). Experiment 1 demonstrated unblocking under cir... Read More about Enhanced unblocking from sustained post-trial surprise.

Indirect object recognition: Evidence for associative processes in recognition memory (2012)
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