Association Learning

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Utterance format affects phonological priming in the picture-word task: implications for models of phonological encoding in speech production.

Picture-word experiments investigating the production of multiword utterances with distractors that are phonologically related to words in noninitial position have yielded inconsistent results, ranging from facilitation to inhibition. A comparison of ...
Jörg D Jescheniak, Herbert Schriefers, Ansgar Hantsch (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200304)
utterance-format-affects-phonological-priming-picture-word-task.asp

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Understanding other peoples actions: intention and attention.

This study investigated the extent to which observation of an action performed by a human actor or a robotic arm may kinematically prime the performance of an observer subsequently required to perform a similar action. In Experiment 1, an actor reached ...
Umberto Castiello (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200304)
understanding-other-people-s-actions-intention-attention.asp

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Reduced Kamin blocking in non paranoid schizophrenia: associations with schizotypy.

Kamin blocking (KB) is an attentional phenomenon whereby prior learning about a stimulus (A) retards learning about a new stimulus (B) when later presented in compound (AB) with the original stimulus A. KB has been shown to be reduced in patients with ...
P M Moran, M M Al-Uzri, J Watson, M A Reveley (J Psychiatr Res, 200303-04)
reduced-kamin-blocking-non-paranoid-schizophrenia-associations.asp

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Olfactory experience mediates response to pain in preterm newborns.

We assessed the effects of a familiar odor during routine blood draws in healthy preterm newborns. Infants were observed as they were undergoing either a capillary puncture on the heel (heelstick) or a venous puncture on the hand. During the procedure, ...
Nathalie Goubet, Cécile Rattaz, Véronique Pierrat, André Bullinger, Pierre Lequien (Dev Psychobiol, 200303)
olfactory-experience-mediates-response-pain-preterm-newborns.asp

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Implicit, long-term spatial contextual memory.

Learning and memory of novel spatial configurations aids behaviors such as visual search through an implicit process called contextual cuing (M. M. Chun & Y. Jiang, 1998). The present study provides rigorous tests of the implicit nature ofcontextual ...
Marvin M Chun, Yuhong Jiang (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200303)
implicit-long-term-spatial-contextual-memory.asp

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The effects of practice on the cognitive test performance of neurologically normal individuals assessed at brief test-retest intervals.

Performance on many cognitive and neuropsychological tests may be improved by prior exposure to testing stimuli and procedures. These beneficial practice effects can have a significant impact on test performance when conventional neuropsychological tests ...
Alexander Collie, Paul Maruff, David G Darby, Michael McStephen (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
effects-practice-cognitive-test-performance-neurologically-normal.asp

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History matters: the preview benefit in search is not onset capture.

Visual search for a conjunction target is made easier when distractor items are temporally segregated over time to produce two separate old and new groups (the new group containing the target item). The benefit of presenting half the distractors first is ...
Melina A Kunar, Glyn W Humphreys, Kelly J Smith (Psychol Sci, 200303)
history-matters-preview-benefit-search-not-onset-capture.asp

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Associative learning and representation. An EPS workshop for N. J. Mackintosh, 9 July 2002.

The papers published in this Special Issue are based upon presentations at a workshop on Associative Learning and Representation, which was sponsored by the Experimental Psychology Society and hosted by Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The workshop ...
(Q J Exp Psychol B, 200302)
associative-learning-representation-eps-workshop-n-j-mackintosh-july.asp

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Asymmetric interference in patterning discriminations: a case of modulated attention.

In sequential training positive patterning hinders negative patterning, but not vice versa. This asymmetry was attributed to interference of two different rules. In a Pavlovian skin conductance response conditioning experiment with humans, we further ...
Ira Ludwig, Harald Lachnit (Biol Psychol, 200302)
asymmetric-interference-patterning-discriminations-case-modulated.asp

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Emotional context modulates subsequent memory effect.

Emotions have been shown to modulate memory processes. However, the neuronal substrate underlying these modulatory effects is largely unknown. Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated whether the context of ...
Susanne Erk, Markus Kiefer, Jo Grothe, Arthur P Wunderlich, Manfred Spitzer, Henrik Walter (Neuroimage, 200302)
emotional-context-modulates-subsequent-memory-effect.asp