Best Paper Award
Published on the 25 July 2012 by School of Psychology
Congratulations to Dr Oren Griffiths who has been selected to receive the "best paper" award for 2012 by the Psychonomic Society's Learning & Behavior editorial team. Dr Griffiths will also receive $1000 as part of the award.
The article authored with Prof Fred Westbrook investigates extinction learning in humans. It shows that humans learn about disconfirming instances (e.g. I believe X, and then I find out "not X") differently to other animals, and differently to how formal learning models predict. The paper speculates that this difference might be a product of the ways in which humans and other animals represent their context, or parse their experience into different episodes.
Publication details:
Griffiths, O. & Westbrook, R. F. (2012) Common error term usage in human extinction learning. Learning & Behavior, 40, 207-221.