---
abstract: "Backward blocking, unovershadowing and backward conditioned inhibition are examples of \"retrospective revaluation\" phenomena, that have been suggested to involve more than simple associative learning. Models of these phenomena have thus employed additional concepts, e.g. appealing to attentional effects or more elaborate learning mechanisms. I show that a suitable representation of stimuli, paired with a careful analysis of the discriminations faced by animals, leads to an account of these and other phenomena in terms of a simple \"elemental\" model of associative learning, 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.\n"
altloc: []
chapter: ~
commentary: ~
commref: ~
confdates: ~
conference: ~
confloc: ~
contact_email: ~
creators_id: []
creators_name:
  - family: Ghirlanda
    given: Stefano
    honourific: ''
    lineage: ''
date: 2005
date_type: published
datestamp: 2006-12-12
department: ~
dir: disk0/00/00/52/98
edit_lock_since: ~
edit_lock_until: ~
edit_lock_user: ~
editors_id: []
editors_name: []
eprint_status: archive
eprintid: 5298
fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5298/1/ghirlanda05.pdf
full_text_status: public
importid: ~
institution: ~
isbn: ~
ispublished: pub
issn: ~
item_issues_comment: []
item_issues_count: 0
item_issues_description: []
item_issues_id: []
item_issues_reported_by: []
item_issues_resolved_by: []
item_issues_status: []
item_issues_timestamp: []
item_issues_type: []
keywords: 'stimulus control, retrospective revaluation, neural networks, backward blocking, external inhibition, unowershadowing, backward conditioned inhibition'
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:44
latitude: ~
longitude: ~
metadata_visibility: show
note: ~
number: ~
pagerange: 107-111
pubdom: FALSE
publication: 'Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes'
publisher: ~
refereed: TRUE
referencetext: ~
relation_type: []
relation_uri: []
reportno: ~
rev_number: 12
series: ~
source: ~
status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:08:51
subjects:
  - bio-etho
  - bio-ani-cog
  - comp-psy
  - comp-sci-neural-nets
  - bio-ani-behav
succeeds: ~
suggestions: ~
sword_depositor: ~
sword_slug: ~
thesistype: ~
title: Retrospective revaluation as simple associative learning
type: journalp
userid: 6801
volume: 31
<script src="//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js"></script>