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Article: Preexposure effects in spatial learning: from gestaltic to associative and attentional cognitive maps. (Spatial Learning and Cognition).
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- Psicológica
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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In this paper a series of studies and theoretical proposals about how preexposure to environmental cues "affects subsequent spatial learning are reviewed. Traditionally, spatial learning bad been thought to depend on gestaltic non-associative processes, and well established phenomena such as latent learning or instantaneous transfer have been taken to provide evidence for this sort of cognitive mapping. However, reviewing the literature examining these effects reveals that there is no need to advocate for gestaltic processes since standard associative learning theory provides an adequate framework for accounting for navigation skills. Recent studies reveal that attentional ...