Temporal and spatial contiguity are necessary for competition between events
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Authors | Herrera, Estibaliz, Alcalá, J. A., Tazumi, T., Buckley, M. G., Prados, J. and Urcelay, G. P. |
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Abstract | Over the last 50 years, cue competition phenomena have shaped theoretical developments in animal and human learning. However, recent failures to observe competition effects in standard conditioning procedures, as well as the lengthy and ongoing debate surrounding cue competition in the spatial learning literature, have cast doubts on the generality of these phenomena. In the present study, we manipulated temporal contiguity between simultaneously trained predictors and outcomes (Experiments 1–4), and spatial contiguity between landmarks and goals in spatial learning (Supplemental Experiments 1 and 2; Experiment 5). Across different parametric variations, we observed overshadowing when temporal and spatial contiguity were strong, but no overshadowing when contiguity was weak. Thus, across temporal and spatial domains, we observed that contiguity is necessary for competition to occur, and that competition between cues presented simultaneously during learning is absent when these cues were either spatially or temporally discontiguous from the outcome. Consequently, we advance a model in which the |
Keywords | contiguity; cue competition; overshadowing |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition |
Journal citation | 48 (3), pp. 321-347 |
Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) |
ISSN | 0278-7393 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001108 |
Web address (URL) | https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2022-51840-001.html |
Funder | Economic and Social Research Council |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 27 Oct 2021 |
Deposited | 30 Aug 2022 |
Supplemental file | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/98463/temporal-and-spatial-contiguity-are-necessary-for-competition-between-events
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