This article reviews evidence and theories concerning the nature of stimulus representations
in Pavlovian conditioning. It focuses on the elemental approach developed in stimulus …

An enduring theme for theories of associative learning is the problem of explaining how
configural discriminations—ones in which the significance of combinations of cues is …

This paper follows on from an earlier companion paper (McLaren & Mackintosh, 2000), in
which we further developed the elemental associative theory put forward in McLaren, Kaye …

A configural theory of associative learning is described that is based on the assumption that
conditioning results in associations between the unconditioned stimulus and a …

My theories of associative learning, like those of NJ Mackintosh and almost all learning
theorists, have employed elemental representations of the stimuli involved. We must take …

Computational models of classical conditioning have made significant contributions to the
theoretic understanding of associative learning, yet they still struggle when the temporal …

Abstract Kenneth Spence (1936, 1937) formalized a quantitative, elemental approach to
association theory that has had a broad and dominating influence on learning theory for …

Since occasion setting was identified as a type of learning independent of
'simple'associative processes, a great deal of research has explored how occasion setters …

Reinforcing an alternative response in the same context as a target response reduces the
rate of occurrence but increases the persistence of that target response. Applied researchers …

Recent studies involving nonlinear discrimination problems suggest that stimuli in human
associative learning are represented configurally with nairow generalization, such that …