Temporal and Spatial Contiguity Are Necessary for Competition between Events

Autor/inn/en	Herrera, Estibaliz; Alcalá, José A.; Tazumi, Toru; Buckley, Matthew G.; Prados, José; Urcelay, Gonzalo P.
Titel	Temporal and Spatial Contiguity Are Necessary for Competition between Events
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48 (2022) 3, S.321-347 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Herrera, Estibaliz) ORCID (Alcalá, José A.) ORCID (Tazumi, Toru) ORCID (Buckley, Matthew G.) ORCID (Prados, José) ORCID (Urcelay, Gonzalo P.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0001108
Schlagwörter	Spatial Ability; Time; Cues; Learning Analytics; Video Games; Adults; Males; Predictor Variables; Visual Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Zeit; Stichwort; Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Prädiktor
Abstract	Over the last 50 years, cue competition phenomena have shaped theoretical developments in animal and human learning. However, recent failures to observe competition effects in standard conditioning procedures, as well as the lengthy and ongoing debate surrounding cue competition in the spatial learning literature, have cast doubts on the generality of these phenomena. In the present study, we manipulated temporal contiguity between simultaneously trained predictors and outcomes (Experiments 1-4), and spatial contiguity between landmarks and goals in spatial learning (Supplemental Experiments 1 and 2; Experiment 5). Across different parametric variations, we observed overshadowing when temporal and spatial contiguity were strong, but no overshadowing when contiguity was weak. Thus, across temporal and spatial domains, we observed that contiguity is necessary for competition to occur, and that competition between cues presented simultaneously during learning is absent when these cues were either spatially or temporally discontiguous from the outcome. Consequently, we advance a model in which the contiguity between events is accounted for and which explains these results and reconciles the previously contradictory findings observed in spatial learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01