Ambiguity produces attention shifts in category learning.

It has been suggested that people and nonhuman animals protect their knowledge from interference by shifting attention toward the context when presented with information that contradicts their previous beliefs. Despite that suggestion, no studies have directly measured changes in attention while par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Vadillo, Miguel A, Orgaz, Cristina, Luque, David, Nelson, James Byron
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Repositorio:Repisalud
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/17130
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/17130
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Attention
Cues
Female
Humans
Learning
Male
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Recognition, Psychology
Uncertainty
Descripción
Sumario:It has been suggested that people and nonhuman animals protect their knowledge from interference by shifting attention toward the context when presented with information that contradicts their previous beliefs. Despite that suggestion, no studies have directly measured changes in attention while participants are exposed to an interference treatment. In the present experiments, we adapted a dot-probe task to track participants' attention to cues and contexts while they were completing a simple category learning task. The results support the hypothesis that interference produces a change in the allocation of attention to cues and contexts.