RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Interference between cues in human contingency learning: A review, new data and a potential general explanation based on propositional models
A1 Luque-Ruiz, David
A1 Morís Fernández, Joaquín
A1 Gutiérrez, María J.
K1 Psicología del aprendizaje
AB Interference between cues (IbC) is a phenomenon in which associat-ing a cue with an outcome interferes retroactively with the retrievalof previously acquired association between another cue and the sameoutcome. In this presentation, we review those situations in whichIbC has been found and not found in the literature, and propose ageneral mechanism responsible of IbC based on propositional mod-els. IbC would take place in those situations in which participantshad reasonable expectations of univoque relations between cues andoutcomes/responses but later these expectations are not fulfilled. Wepresent three experiments that tested this hypothesis. In the first one,the likelihood of univoque relations was manipulated by using a dif-ferent number of available responses, while in the second partici-pants were pretrained with univoque or non univoque filler relations.In both cases reducing the likelihood of the expectation of univoquerelations reduced the magnitude of IbC, supporting the proposed hy-pothesis. Finally, in the third experiment we showed that when theinterfering association is presented using instructions it also producesIbC, as in a trial-by-trial learning. Its magnitude was similar or high-er, depending on the type of measurement used. These results suggestthat a high-level propositional inference produces IbC.
YR 2013
FD 2013-10-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6185
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6185
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026