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Prof. Dr. Lachnit and Prof. Dr. Einhaeuser-Treyer

Effects of informational value on perception and attention in associative learning

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During associative learning humans attend to sensory cues because of their informational value. From two diametrically opposed perspectives attention is allocated because (a) a cue is a reliable predictor of a subsequent outcome or (b) a cue induces uncertainty about its consequence. Project B4 uses a range of predictive learning tasks to examine the effects of informational value on overt attention, learning rate, pupillary orienting, the N2pc component of event-related brain potentials, and the perception of ambiguous stimuli. Our results will shed further light on attentional processes in associative learning.

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former project-related publications
Einhäuser, W., Methfessel, P., & Bendixen, A. (2017). Newly acquired audio-visual associations bias perception in binocular rivalry. Vision Research. 133, 121-129. DOI find paper
Einhäuser, W., Sandrock, A., & Schütz, A.C. (2021). Perceptual difficulty persistently increases dominance in binocular rivalry - even without a task. Perception, 50(4), 343-366. find paper DOI
Einhäuser, W., Thomassen, S., & Bendixen, A. (2017). Using binocular rivalry to tag foreground sounds: Towards an objective visual measure for auditory multistability. Journal of Vision, 17(1):34, 1–19. DOI find paper
Frässle, S., Sommer, J., Jansen, A., Naber, M., & Einhäuser, W. (2014). Binocular rivalry - frontal activity relates to introspection and action, but not to perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 1738-1747. find paper
Koenig , S., Kadel , H., Uengoer, M., Schubö , A. & Lachnit , H. (2017). Reward draws the eye uncertainty holds the eye: Associative learning modulates distracter interference in visual search. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 128. DOI find paper
Koenig, Nauroth, Lucke, Lachnit, Gollwitzer, & Uengoer (2017). Fear acquisition and liking of out-group and in-group members: Learning bias or attention? Biological Psychology. find paper
Koenig, S., Körfer, K., Lachnit, H., & Glombiewski, J. (2021). An attentional perspective on differential fear conditioning in chronic pain: The informational value of safety cues. find preprint
Koenig, S., Torrents-Rodas, D., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2021). Value-driven interference in visual search: Attention to reward-associated distractors. PsyArXiv. find preprint, DATA
Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2017). Attentional bias for uncertain cues of shock in human fear conditioning: Evidence for attentional learning theory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,11, 266. DOI find paper
Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2017). Pupil dilation indicates the coding of past prediction errors: Evidence for attentional learning theory. Psychophysiology , in press. find paper
Marx, S., & Einhäuser, W. (2015). Reward modulates perception in binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 15(1):11.DOI find paper
Marx, S., Gruenhage, G., Walper, D., Rutishauser, U., & Einhäuser, W. (2015). Competition with and without priority control: linking rivalry to attention through winner?take?all networks with memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1339(1), 138-153. DOI DOI find paper
Pothast. M., Koenig, S., Lachnit, H., Einhäuser, W. (2021). Uncertain reward cues dominate perception at binocular-rivalry. find preprint
Torrents-Rodas, D., Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2021a). A rise in prediction error increases attention to irrelevant cues. Biological Psychology, 159, 108007. find paper
Torrents-Rodas, D., Koenig, S., Uengoer, M., & Lachnit, H. (2021b). Evidence for two attentional mechanisms during learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218211019308. find paper, DATA
Uengoer, M., Dwyer, D. M., Koenig , S., & Pearce, J. M. (2017). A test for a difference in the associability of blocked and uninformative cues in human predictive learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, in press. find paper
Uengoer, M., Lucke, S., & Lachnit, H. (2018). Attention toward contexts modulates context-specificity of behavior in human predictive learning: Evidence from the n-back task. Learning & behavior, 1-7. find paper
Uengoer, M., Pearce, J. M., Lachnit, H., & Koenig, S. (2017). Context modulation of learned attention deployment. Learning & Behavior, in press. DOI find paper
Veto, P., Schütz, I., & Einhäuser, W. (2018). Continuous flash suppression: Manual action affects eye movements but not the reported percept. Journal of vision, 18(3):8 1-10. find paper DOI
Veto, P., Uhlig, M., Troje, N. F., & Einhäuser, W. (2018). Cognition modulates action-to-perception transfer in ambiguous perception. Journal of vision, 18(8):5, 1-8. find paper DOI
Project leader

Prof. Dr.
Wolfgang Einhaeuser-Treyer wolfgang.einhaeuser-treyer@physik.tu-chemnitz.de

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