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ArticleJournal of cognition2023

Inhibitory Learning with Bidirectional Outcomes: Prevention Learning or Causal Learning in the Opposite Direction?

Julie Y L Chow, Jessica C Lee, Peter F Lovibond

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Article in Journal of cognition, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Julie Y L ChowUNSW, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7515-9601
Jessica C LeeThe University of Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4253-2008
Peter F LovibondUNSW, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2146-9054

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influential models of causal learning assume that learning about generative and preventive relationships are symmetrical to each other. That is, a preventive cue directly prevents an outcome from occurring (i.e., "direct" prevention) in the same way a generative cue directly causes an outcome to occur. However, previous studies from our lab have shown that many participants do not infer a direct prevention causal structure after feature-negative discrimination (A+/AB-) with a unidirectional outcome (Lee & Lovibond, 2021). Melchers et al. (2006) suggested that the use of a bidirectional outcome that can either increase or decrease from baseline, encourages direct prevention learning. Here we test an alternative possibility that a bidirectional outcome encourages encoding of a

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bidirectional outcomescausal learningcausal structurefeature negativeprevention

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PMID36910583
PMCPMC10000320

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