{"pk":28092,"title":"What can Associative Learning do for Driving?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"To improve road safety, it is important to understand the\nimpact that the contingencies around traffic lights have upon\ndrivers’ behavior. There are formal rules that govern behavior\nat UK traffic lights (see The Highway Code, 2015), but what\ndoes experience of the contingencies do to us? While a green\nlight always cues a go response and a singleton red a stop, the\nbehavior linked to amber is ambiguous; in the presence of red\nit cues readiness to start, while on its own it cues\n\"preparation\" to stop. Could it be that the contingencies\nbetween stimuli and responses lead to implicit learning of\nresponses that differ from those suggested by the rules of the\nroad? This study used an incidental go/no-go task in which\ncolored shapes were stochastically predictive of whether a\nresponse was required. The stimuli encoded the contingencies\nbetween traffic lights and their appropriate responses, for\nexample, stimulus G was a go cue, mimicking the response to\na green light. Evidence was found to indicate that G was a go\ncue, while A (which had the same contingencies as an amber\nlight) was a weak go cue, and that R (a stop cue) was\nsurprisingly responded to as a neutral cue.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Associative learning; response inhibition; driving\nbehavior"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4326j4gd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"G","last_name":"Nicholson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Exiter","department":""},{"first_name":"Frederick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Verbruggen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ghent University","department":""},{"first_name":"Ian","middle_name":"P.L.","last_name":"McLaren","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Exiter","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28092/galley/17731/download/"}]}