The role of memory and reasoning processes in associative learning

该项目将调查人们是如何学会察觉环境中预测或导致重大事件的线索（联想学习）的。该研究建立在最近的实证和理论工作的调查者支持演绎推理过程在联想学习中的作用。新的实验策略将用于识别低级记忆过程和高级推理过程的分离和相互作用。现有的竞争模式和新的合作模式将得到检验。这项研究将有助于更好地理解人类的联想学习，也将为智能人工系统的构建提供信息。

The project will investigate how people learn to detect cues that predict or cause significant events in their environment (associative learning). The research builds on recent empirical and theoretical work by the investigators supporting the role of deductive reasoning processes in associative learning. Novel experimental strategies will be used to identify the separate and interacting roles of lower-level memory processes and higher-level reasoning processes. Existing competing models and novel cooperative models will be tested. The research will lead to a better understanding of associative learning in humans, and will also inform the construction of intelligent artificial systems.