Abstract
There is evidence that in human Pavlovian conditioning positive patterning (A−, B−, AB+) as well as negative patterning (A+, B+, AB−) are solved by applying abstract rules. In the present report we further investigated how humans solve patterning discriminations by conducting two Go/NoGo reaction time experiments that utilized the stimulus probability effect: stimuli presented with a low probability of occurrence elicit larger pupil dilations than those presented with a high frequency. In decreasing the ratio of compound and elemental trials from 1/1 (24 A, 24 B, 48 AB) in Experiment 1 to 1/2 (32 A, 32 B, 32 AB) in Experiment 2 we manipulated stimulus probability. The results of both experiments indicate that humans utilize distinctive features such as number information in order to classify the stimuli.
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