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  • Title: Backward blocking and recovery from overshadowing in human causal judgement: the role of within-compound associations.
    Author: Wasserman EA, Berglan LR.
    Journal: Q J Exp Psychol B; 1998 May; 51(2):121-38. PubMed ID: 9621838.
    Abstract:
    We replicated and extended a project by Dickinson and Burke (1996) that concerned human causal judgement. In a medical diagnostic setting, college students' ratings of the causal efficacy of target cues showed retrospective revaluation: relative to a proper control condition, ratings of target cues both increased ("recovery from overshadowing") and decreased ("backward blocking") during a second stage of training in which competing cues, but not target cues, were presented. These changes in causal judgements were exhibited only by subjects who had learned which target and competing cues were paired with one another during the first stage of training. These results cannot be explained by the Rescorla-Wagner (1972) model of associative learning, but they can be explained by the revised model of Van Hamme and Wasserman (1994); the revised model assigns non-zero salience to non-presented target stimuli whose memories or representations are retrieved by competing stimuli that had previously been paired with those target stimuli.
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