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Grégoire, Laurent; Anderson, Brian A. – Learning & Memory, 2019
This study aimed to determine whether attentional prioritization of stimuli associated with reward transfers across conceptual knowledge independently of physical features. Participants successively performed two color-word Stroop tasks. In the learning phase, neutral words were associated with high, low, or no monetary reward. In the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Rewards, Comparative Analysis, Color
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Dunsmoor, Joseph E.; White, Allison J.; LaBar, Kevin S. – Learning & Memory, 2011
We tested the hypothesis that conceptual similarity promotes generalization of conditioned fear. Using a sensory preconditioning procedure, three groups of subjects learned an association between two cues that were conceptually similar, unrelated, or mismatched. Next, one of the cues was paired with a shock. The other cue was then reintroduced to…
Descriptors: Cues, Generalization, Fear, Anxiety