The role of inductive reasoning in generalization of associative learning

这个项目试图更好地理解学习是如何被概括为新的刺激的。了解我们周围的联系有助于我们获得资源并将威胁降至最低。对于学习者来说，一项关键的任务是推断这种知识的程度：太少的概括会减少学习的好处，太多的风险会分散注意力和做出不适应的反应。最近的证据表明，推理过程在人类联想学习中扮演着重要的角色。这个项目的目的是应用归纳推理文献中的见解来研究假设和范畴归纳在联想学习概括中的作用。这一结果有望对我们理解联想学习和概括有重要的意义，这可能会为在教育、培训和临床实践等领域促进适应性概括的技术提供信息。

This project seeks to develop a better understanding of how learning is generalised to novel stimuli. Learning about associations around us helps us to obtain resources and minimise threat. A critical task for the learner is how far to extrapolate this knowledge: too little generalisation reduces the benefits of learning and too much risks distraction and maladaptive responding. Recent evidence has shown an important role for reasoning processes in human associative learning. This project aims to apply insights from the inductive reasoning literature to study the role of hypothesis and category induction in generalisation of associative learning. The results are expected to have important implications for our understanding of associative learning and generalisation which may inform techniques to promote adaptive generalisation in fields such as education, training and clinical practice.