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    "pk": 27458,
    "title": "The Redundancy Effect in Human Causal Learning: Evidence Against a\nComparator Theory Explanation",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The blocking effect, canonical in the study of associative\nlearning, is often explained as a failure of the blocked cue to\nbecome associated with the outcome. However, this\nperspective fails to explain recent findings that suggest\nlearning about a blocked cue is superior to a different type of\nredundant cue. We report an experiment designed to test the\nproposal that blocking is not a failure of association, but a\nperformance effect arising from a comparator process\n(Denniston, Savastano, & Miller, 2001). Participants received\nA+ AX+ BY+ CY- training containing a blocked cue X and\nanother redundant cue Y, before rating outcome expectancies\nfor individual cues. These ratings were inconsistent with the\nassociation-failure view. After subsequent A- Y+ training,\nparticipants rated cues again. Ratings in the second test were\ninconsistent with the comparator theory. Our data suggest that\nneither perspective is likely to provide a complete account of\ncausal learning.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "associative learning; comparator theory;\nredundancy effect; blocking; cue competition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02t2v52b",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Tara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zaksaite",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Plymouth University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Peter",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Jones",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Plymouth University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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