Effects of informational value on perception and attention in associative learning. (B04)

• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: from 2014 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 222641018

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.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 135: Cardinal mechanisms of perception: Prediction, Valuation, Categorization
• Applicant Institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
• Co-Applicant Institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer; Professor Dr. Harald Lachnit