Learned predictiveness effects following single-cue training in humans.
The results of several recent studies of human associative learning indicate that people will learn more rapidly about cues that have previously been experienced as predictive of events of significance, as compared with cues previously experienced as nonpredictive. Notably, however, these experiments have typically established this prior predictiveness by means of pretraining with multiple, simultaneously presented cues, some of which are more predictive than others. The present experiments instead investigated the influence of prior predictiveness on future learning when this predictiveness was established via pretraining with individual cues, each of which was the best available predictor of the outcome with which it was paired. Results indicate that, following this pretraining, human participants again show better learning about previously predictive cues than about previously nonpredictive cues.
Le Pelley
M E
ME
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales. lepelleyme@cf.ac.uk
Turnbull
M N
MN
Reimers
S J
SJ
Knipe
R L
RL
D001245:Association Learning; D003118:Color Perception; D003463:Cues; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011337:Probability Learning; D014163:Transfer, Psychology
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