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50 Years of ERIC
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Effting, Marieke; Vervliet, Bram; Beckers, Tom; Kindt, Merel – Learning and Motivation, 2013
Extinction is generally more context specific than acquisition, as illustrated by the renewal effect. While most strategies to counteract renewal focus on decreasing the context specificity of extinction, the present work aimed at increasing the context specificity of acquisition learning. Two experiments examined whether presenting cued…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Cues, Learning Processes, Prediction
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Vandorpe, Stefaan; de Houwer, Jan; Beckers, Tom – Learning and Motivation, 2007
Revisions of common associative learning models incorporate a within-compound association mechanism in order to explain retrospective cue competition effects (e.g., [Dickinson, A., & Burke, J. (1996). Within-compound associations mediate the retrospective revaluation of causality judgements. "Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49B", pp.…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Memory, Inferences, Competition
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Baeyens, Frank; Vervliet, Bram; Vansteenwegen, Debora; Beckers, Tom; Hermans, Dirk; Eelen, Paul – Learning and Motivation, 2004
Using a conditioned suppression task, we investigated simultaneous (XA-/A+) vs. sequential (X [right arrow] A-/A+) Feature Negative (FN) discrimination learning in humans. We expected the simultaneous discrimination to result in X (or alternatively the XA configuration) becoming an inhibitor acting directly on the US, and the sequential…
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Discrimination Learning, Experiments, Inhibition