Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination

Hippocampal lesions can enhance discrimi

Hippocampal lesions can enhance discrimination learning despite normal sensitivity to interference from incidental information

✍ David J. Sanderson; J. Nicholas P. Rawlins; Robert M. J. Deacon; Colm Cunningham 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 666 KB

Spatial properties of stimuli are sometimes encoded even when incidental to the demands of a particular learning task. Incidental encoding of spatial information may interfere with learning by (i) causing a failure to generalize learning between trials in which a cue is presented in different spatia