The 28th Bartlett Memorial Lecture

The 28th Bartlett Memorial Lecture

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TITLE	The 28th Bartlett Memorial Lecture	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Anthony Dickinson	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	The concordance between performance and judgements of the causal effectiveness of an instrumental action suggests that such actions are mediated by causal knowledge. Although causal learning exhibits many associative phenomena—blocking, inhibitory or preventative learning, and super-learning—judgements of the causal status of a cue can be changed retrospectively as a result of learning episodes that do not directly involve the cue. In order to explain retrospective revaluation, a modi®ed associative theory is described in which the learning processes for retrieved cue representations are the opposite to those for presented cues, and this theory is evaluated by studies of the role of within-compound associations in retrospective revaluation and blocking. However, this modi®ed theory only applies when the within-compound association represents a contiguous rather than a causal cue relationship. Causal learning and representation is a fundamental form of cognition, if not the fundamental form. Without the capacity to learn about and represent the causal relationships between our actions and their consequences, the mind would be radically disconnected from the world. However detailed and rich our knowledge, however sophisticated and complex our inferences and planning, cognition would be impotent if our thoughts could not be	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
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