Abstract The Rescorla-Wagner model has been the most influential theory of associative
learning to emerge from the study of animal behavior over the last 25 years. Recently …

The study of the mechanism that detects the contingency between events, in both humans
and nonhuman animals, is a matter of considerable research activity. Two broad categories …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Can the output of human cognition be predicted from the assumption that it is an optimal
response to the information-processing demands of the environment? A methodology called …

College students rated the causal efficacy of Elements X, A, and B of food compounds AX
and BX in producing the allergic reaction of a hypothetical patient. The results of a 16-day …

Several researchers have recently claimed that higher order types of learning, such as
categorization and causal induction, can be reduced to lower order associative learning …

Attribution concerns the scientific study of naive theories and common-sense explanations.
This text provides a thorough and up-to-date introduction to the field, combining …

Events are central elements of human experience. Formally, they can be individuated in
terms of the entities that compose them, the features of those entities, and the relations …

We investigated the possible role of the conditional probabilities of an outcome given a
response P (O| R) and of an outcome given the absence of a response P (O| NoR) in …

The authors comprehensively review research and theory on the verb causality effect. The
effect involves the finding that different types of verbs used to describe interpersonal events …