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Attention and Associative Learning in Humans: An Integrative Review by Le Pelley, Mike E., Mitchell, Chris J., Beesley, Tom, George, David N., Wills, Andy J.

“…This article presents a comprehensive survey of research concerning interactions between associative learning and attention in humans. Four main findings are…”
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Acute Itch Induces Attentional Avoidance of Itch-related Information by Etty, Sarah, George, David N, Van Laarhoven, Antoinette I M, Holle, Henning

“…Attention is known to modulate itch intensity. In contrast, the reverse relationship, i.e. the degree to which the presence of an acute itch affects attention,…”
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Effects of Short-term Temperature Change in the Innocuous Range on Histaminergic and Non-histaminergic Acute Itch by Lewis, Zoe, George, David N, Cowdell, Fiona, Holle, Henning

“…While temperatures in the noxious range are well-known to inhibit acute itch, the impact of temperature in the innocuous temperature range is less well…”
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The Representation of Stimulus Conjunction in Theories of Associative Learning: A Context-Dependent Added-Elements Model by George, David N

“…This article briefly reviews 3 theories concerning elemental and configural approaches to stimulus representation in associative learning and presents a new…”
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Test Performance in Optional Shift and Configural Acquired Equivalence Are Positively Correlated by Bru García, Sara, George, David N., Robinson, Jasper

“…In two experiments, participants completed two computer-based tasks: a configural acquired equivalence procedure and an optional-shift procedure. Both revealed…”
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Absence of Differential Protection From Extinction in Human Causal Learning by George, David N., Haddon, Josephine E., Griffiths, Oren

“…Elemental models of associative learning typically employ a common prediction-error term. Following a conditioning trial, they predict that the change in the…”
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Stimulus Similarity Affects Patterning Discrimination Learning by George, David N

“…In four experiments, participants' performance on a variety of nonlinear patterning discriminations was assessed using a predictive learning task and visual…”
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Disentangling the Effects of Attentional Weighting and Associative Mediation in Perceptual Learning Reveals No Evidence for Associative Mediation by George, David N, Oltean, Bianca P

“…Learning to categorize perceptually similar stimuli can result in people becoming more sensitive to differences along perceptual dimensions that are relevant…”
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A Computational Implementation of a Hebbian Learning Network and Its Application to Configural Forms of Acquired Equivalence by Robinson, Jasper, George, David N, Heinke, Dietmar

“…We describe and report the results of computer simulations of the three-layer Hebbian network informally described by Honey, Close, and Lin (2010): A general…”
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Preexposure Along a Continuum: Differentiation and Association by George, David N., Haddon, Josephine E.

“…In 5 experiments, we assessed the effects of preexposure to simple auditory stimuli on subsequent conditioning and discrimination learning. Experiment 1 showed…”
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Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are sensitive to the correlation between pitch and timbre in human speech by Sturdy, Sasha K., Smith, David R. R., George, David N.

“…The perceived pitch of human voices is highly correlated with the fundamental frequency ( f 0) of the laryngeal source, which is determined largely by the…”
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Attentional bias in psoriasis: The role of processing time and emotional valence by Etty, Sarah, George, David N., van Laarhoven, Antoinette I. M., Kleyn, C. Elise, Walton, Shernaz, Holle, Henning

“…Purpose The present study explored whether people with psoriasis display an attentional bias towards disease‐related threat words and whether this bias occurs…”
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Placebo Analgesia From a Rubber Hand by Coleshill, Matthew J, George, David N, Mazzoni, Giuliana

“…Placebo analgesia, reductions in pain after administration of an inert treatment, is a well documented phenomenon. We report, to our knowledge, the first…”
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A configural theory of attention and associative learning by George, David N., Pearce, John M.

“…A formal account of the relationship between attention and associative learning is presented within the framework of a configural theory of discrimination…”
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More evidence that less is better: Sub-optimal choice in dogs by Chase, Rebecca J., George, David N.

“…The less-is-better effect is a preference for the lesser of two alternatives sometimes observed when they are evaluated separately. For example, a dinner…”
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Contextual modulation of attention in human category learning by George, David N., Kruschke, John K.

“…In a category-learning experiment, we assessed whether participants were able to selectively attend to different components of a compound stimulus in two…”
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Dissociation of prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens dopaminergic systems in conditional learning in rats by George, David N., Jenkins, Trisha A., Killcross, Simon

“…• Levels of prefrontal dopamine were higher in rats following performance of a conditional discrimination task than following a simple control discrimination…”
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Extreme elemental processing in a high schizotypy population: Relation to cognitive deficits by Haddon, Josephine E., George, David N., Grayson, Lois, McGowan, Christopher, Honey, Robert C., Killcross, Simon

“…The cognitive deficits observed in schizophrenia have been characterized as a failure to utilize task-setting information to guide behaviour, especially in…”
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Lesions to the ventral, but not the dorsal, medial prefrontal cortex enhance latent inhibition by George, David N., Duffaud, Anaïs M., Pothuizen, Helen H. J., Haddon, Josephine E., Killcross, Simon

“…The acquisition of a conditioned response to a stimulus when it is paired with a reinforcer is retarded if the stimulus has previously been repeatedly…”
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The nature of discrimination learning in pigeons by Pearce, John M, Esber, Guillem R, George, David N, Haselgrove, Mark

“…The results from five experiments are considered in relation to two of Spence's (1937, 1938) proposals concerning discrimination learning. In Experiments 1 and…”
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