Testing the automaticity of an attentional bias towards predictive cues in human associative learning

It is well established that associative learning, such as learning new cue–outcome pairings, produces changes in attention: cues that are good predictors of relevant outcomes become prioritised compared with those that are non-predictive or redundant. However, there is controversy about whether such...

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Published in:Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) 2020-05, Vol.73 (5), p.762-780
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Association Learning - physiology
Attentional Bias - physiology
Bias
Color Perception - physiology
Cues
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Humans
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Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
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