Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena
Blocking is the most important phenomenon in the history of associative learning theory: For over 40 years, blocking has inspired a whole generation of learning models. Blocking is part of a family of effects that are typically termed cue competition effects. Common amongst all cue competition effec...
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| description | Blocking is the most important phenomenon in the history of associative learning theory: For over 40 years, blocking has inspired a whole generation of learning models. Blocking is part of a family of effects that are typically termed cue competition effects. Common amongst all cue competition effects is that a cue-outcome relation is poorly learned or poorly expressed because the cue is trained in the presence of an alternative predictor or cause of the outcome. We provide an overview of the cognitive processes involved in cue competition effects in humans and propose a stage framework that brings these processes together. The framework contends that the behavioral display of cue competition is cognitively construed following three stages that include (1) an encoding stage, (2) a retention stage, and (3) a performance stage. We argue that the stage framework supports a comprehensive understanding of cue competition effects. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-02d2247b6ce644d7ad5bb3ce000005112022-12-22T03:42:01ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782014-11-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.01305103883Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomenaYannick eBoddez0Kim eHaesen1Frank eBaeyens2Tom eBeckers3Tom eBeckers4KU LeuvenKU LeuvenKU LeuvenKU LeuvenUniversity of AmsterdamBlocking is the most important phenomenon in the history of associative learning theory: For over 40 years, blocking has inspired a whole generation of learning models. Blocking is part of a family of effects that are typically termed cue competition effects. Common amongst all cue competition effects is that a cue-outcome relation is poorly learned or poorly expressed because the cue is trained in the presence of an alternative predictor or cause of the outcome. We provide an overview of the cognitive processes involved in cue competition effects in humans and propose a stage framework that brings these processes together. The framework contends that the behavioral display of cue competition is cognitively construed following three stages that include (1) an encoding stage, (2) a retention stage, and (3) a performance stage. We argue that the stage framework supports a comprehensive understanding of cue competition effects.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01305/fullPrediction errorassociative learningconditioningLearning Theorystimulus competitionblocking |
| spellingShingle | Yannick eBoddez Kim eHaesen Frank eBaeyens Tom eBeckers Tom eBeckers Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena Frontiers in Psychology Prediction error associative learning conditioning Learning Theory stimulus competition blocking |
| title | Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena |
| title_full | Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena |
| title_fullStr | Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena |
| title_full_unstemmed | Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena |
| title_short | Selectivity in associative learning: A cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena |
| title_sort | selectivity in associative learning a cognitive stage framework for blocking and cue competition phenomena |
| topic | Prediction error associative learning conditioning Learning Theory stimulus competition blocking |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01305/full |
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