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--- 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