Interest in individual differences in animal behavioural plasticities has surged in recent
years, but research in this area has been hampered by semantic confusion as different …

Associative learning abilities vary considerably among individuals, with attentional
processes suggested to play a role in these variations. However, the relationship between …

External sources of information influence human actions. However, psychological traits
(PTs), considered internal variables, also play a crucial role in decision making. PTs are …

Judgments of a treatment's effectiveness are usually biased by the probability with which the
outcome (eg, symptom relief) appears: even when the treatment is completely ineffective (ie …

Persistence of superstitions in the modern era could be justified by considering them as a by-
product of the brain's capacity to detect associations and make assumptions about cause …

Rescorla and Wagner's model of learning describes excitation and inhibition as symmetrical
opposites. However, tasks used in human causal learning experiments, such as the allergist …

Cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease (PD) have increasingly been recognized over the
last decade and reversal learning in particular has received a great deal of attention. In a …

This ebook represents the scientific contribution of over 30 individuals working in
laboratories in 5 countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the …

In an associative patterning task, some people seem to focus more on learning an
overarching rule, whereas others seem to focus on acquiring specific relations between the …

The present study aimed to test possible cognitive mechanisms that may underlie the
elevated depressive symptoms in older adults. One hundred forty-one individuals (ages 32 …