Attention to irrelevant contexts decreases as training increases: Evidence from eye-fixations in a human predictive learning task

JA Aristizabal, MM Ramos-Álvarez… - Behavioural …, 2016 - Elsevier
Participants were trained in a human predictive learning task in which they had to predict
whether the ingestion of a given food (cue) by the imaginary customer of an imaginary …

Discrimination reversal facilitates subsequent acquisition of temporal discriminations in rats' appetitive conditioning.

JA Alcalá, JE Callejas-Aguilera… - … : Animal Learning and …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Three experiments with rats assessed the effects of introducing predictive ambiguity by
reversing a Pavlovianly trained discrimination on subsequent context and temporal …

Increasing previous but not concurrent extinction attenuates the “extinction makes acquisition context specific” effect in human predictive learning.

PM Ogallar, JM Rosas… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Four experiments in human predictive learning evaluated whether the extinction makes the
acquisition context specific (EMACS) effect is attenuated when the increase in prediction …

Testing a cue outside the training context increases attention to the contexts and impairs performance in human predictive learning

JA Aristizabal, MM Ramos-Alvarez… - Behavioural …, 2017 - Elsevier
One experiment in human predictive learning explored the impact of a context change on
attention to contexts and predictive ratings controlled by the cue. In Context A: cue X was …

[PDF][PDF] Attentional Perspectives on Context-dependence of Information Retrievalpp

PM Ogallar, MMR Álvarez, JA Alcalá… - International Journal of …, 2017 - redalyc.org
Attention has been traditionally understood as an important factor on acquiring new
information. re ie of t e literature su ests t at attention specificall attention to t …

Attentional instructions modulate differential context-switch effects after short and long training in human predictive learning.

JE Callejas-Aguilera, CP Cubillas… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Three experiments in human predictive learning assessed the modulating role of
instructions on context-switch effects on performance after different levels of training. Cue X …

Contextual control of conditioning is not affected by extinction in a behavioral task with humans

JB Nelson, JA Lamoureux - Learning & behavior, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Attentional Theory of Context Processing (ATCP) states that extinction will
arouse attention to contexts resulting in learning becoming contextually controlled …

Context specificity of taste aversion is boosted by pre-exposure and conditioning with a different taste

R Bernal-Gamboa, J Nieto, JM Rosas - Behavioural Processes, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent reports in the literature show that an extinction treatment makes subsequently
learned information context-specific. An experiment in conditioned taste aversion evaluated …

Prior extinction increases acquisition context specificity in human predictive learning

PM Ogallar, JM Rosas, MM Ramos-Álvarez… - Behavioural …, 2019 - Elsevier
One experiment evaluated the effect of extinction on the context dependence of non-
extinguished information in a situation in which physical (images), rather than predominantly …

Ambiguity produces attention shifts in category learning

MA Vadillo, C Orgaz, D Luque, JB Nelson - Learning & Memory, 2016 - learnmem.cshlp.org
It has been suggested that people and nonhuman animals protect their knowledge from
interference by shifting attention toward the context when presented with information that …