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09:00 - 10:30
Parallel sessions 1
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09:00 - 10:30
Room: HSZ - N5
Chair/s:
Carina G. Giesen
A growing body of literature documents that perception and action are supported by short-lived bindings between stimulus and response features. Notably, the relationship of binding and retrieval processes and learning mechanisms is complex and a point of ongoing debate in current cognitive research. While the concepts of binding and retrieval as proposed in action control research, e.g., by the Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC) framework, closely resemble processes in learning and memory on a theoretical level, empirical findings largely oppose a close relation. In this symposium, we explore recent views on the relations between binding and retrieval and learning processes across different types of learning effects.
We will present findings from a broad range of experimental paradigms like stimulus-response and response-response binding, contingency learning, and evaluative conditioning.
These data will be used to highlight different perspectives on the intersections of binding and learning effects. Five talks will unravel how potent factors like contingency awareness, number and frequency of presentations, and time since the last stimulus occurrence affect binding/retrieval and/or learning effects. Together, these findings further our understanding of the relation between binding and learning.
Submission 288
The Influence of Number of Repetitions and Timing on SR-Contingency Learning and Action Control
SymposiumTalk-04
Presented by: Nicolas Nezan
Nicolas Nezan, Birte Moeller, Christian Frings
Trier University, Germany
In human action control research, binding and retrieval provide comprehensive accounts of the common coding between perception and action. The connection between these constructs and fundamental components of memory theories, namely encoding and retrieval (Melton, 1963; Roediger & Abel, 2022) remains unclear. In the presented study, we start to investigate a possible route of learning from short term stimulus-response bindings to longer term memory for associations. For that we use a setup that can be assumed to produce short-term binding effects between responses and task irrelevant stimuli. Participants categorize the frame of pictures via left and right keypress. In addition we introduce contingencies between picture identity and response side during a learning phase. Learned contingencies are measured in a following test phase. Both the number of repetitions of picture-response combinations and the delay between practice and test phases systematically varies across different contexts. We expect larger contingency effects with increasing numbers of repetitions of stimulus-response combinations during practice and an additional impact of the last stimulus-response occurrence only for short but not for long delays between practice and test. The findings are discussed regarding insights they can provide into how binding effects are influenced by the repetition frequency of feature combinations, as well as the strength and potential consolidation of these bindings over time.