?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Retrospective+revaluation+as+simple+associative+learning&rft.creator=Ghirlanda%2C+Stefano&rft.subject=Ethology&rft.subject=Animal+Cognition&rft.subject=Comparative+Psychology&rft.subject=Neural+Nets&rft.subject=Animal+Behavior&rft.description=Backward+blocking%2C+unovershadowing+and+backward+conditioned+inhibition+are+examples+of+%22retrospective+revaluation%22+phenomena%2C+that+have+been+suggested+to+involve+more+than+simple+associative+learning.+Models+of+these+phenomena+have+thus+employed+additional+concepts%2C+e.g.+appealing+to+attentional+effects+or+more+elaborate+learning+mechanisms.+I+show+that+a+suitable+representation+of+stimuli%2C+paired+with+a+careful+analysis+of+the+discriminations+faced+by+animals%2C+leads+to+an+account+of+these+and+other+phenomena+in+terms+of+a+simple+%22elemental%22+model+of+associative+learning%2C+with+essentially+the+same+learning+mechanism+as+the+Rescorla+and+Wagner+(1972)+model.+I+conclude+with+a+discussion+of+some+implications+for+theories+of+learning.%0A&rft.date=2005&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5298%2F1%2Fghirlanda05.pdf&rft.identifier=++Ghirlanda%2C+Stefano++(2005)+Retrospective+revaluation+as+simple+associative+learning.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5298%2F