scholarly journals Original article Temperamental variation in learned irrelevance in humans

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 94-104
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Gruszka ◽  
Adrian M. Owen
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2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (1b) ◽  
pp. 90-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Baker ◽  
Robin A. Murphy ◽  
Rick Mehta

In 1973 Mackintosh reported an interference effect that he called learned irrelevance in which exposure to uncorrelated (CS/US) presentation of the unconditional stimulus (US) and the conditioned stimulus (CS) interfered with future Pavlovian conditioning. It has been argued that there is no specific interference effect in learned irrelevance; rather the interference is the sum of independent CS and US exposure effects (CS + US). We review previous research on this question and report two new experiments. We conclude that learned irrelevance is a consequence of a contingency learning and a specific learned irrelevance mechanism. Moreover even the “independent exposure controls”, used in previous experiments to support the CS and US exposure account, provide support for the correlation learning process.


2005 ◽  
Vol 159 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilad Gal ◽  
Shlomo Mendlovic ◽  
Yuval Bloch ◽  
Gabriela Beitler ◽  
Yechiel Levkovitz ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Schmidt-Hansen ◽  
Nicola S. Gray ◽  
Lisa H. Evans ◽  
Robert J. Snowden

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Oberling ◽  
Lisa M. Gunther ◽  
Ralph R. Miller

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