RT journal article
T1 Roles of context in acquisition of human instrumental learning: Implications for the understanding of the mechanisms underlying context-switch effects
A1 Gámez Martínez, Antonio Matías
A1 León, Samuel P.
A1 Rosas, Juan M.
A2 Psicología
K1 Contents of learning
K1 Context-switch
K1 Instrumental conditioning
K1 Humans
AB Four experiments in human instrumental learning explored the associations involving the context that develop after three trials of training on simple discriminations. Experiments 1 and 4 found a deleterious effect of switching the learning context that cannot be explained by the context-outcome binary associations commonly used to explain context-switch effects after short training in human predictive learning and in animal Pavlovian conditioning. Evidence for context-outcome (Experiment 2), context-discriminative stimulus (Experiment 3), and context-instrumental response (Experiment 4) binary associations was found within the same training paradigm, suggesting that contexts became associated with all the elements of the situation, regardless of whether those associations played a role in a specific context-switch effect detected on performance.
PB Springer New York LLC
SN 1543-4508
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33863
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33863
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026