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.