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Nonreinforced exposure to a visual stimulus retards subsequent conditioning to that stimulus. If the stimulus is presented in nonreinforced compound with a second, nontarget, visual stimulus, this retardation of conditioning is abolished. If the nontarget stimulus component of the compound has itself been exposed, nonreinforced, prior to presentation of the compound, then conditioning to the target stimulus is stronger than it is if the stimuli are only exposed in compound prior to conditioning.
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Thanks are due Todd R. Schachtman and Lisa A. Osborne for their support. This manuscript was prepared with the help of the Birmingham University School of Psychology.
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Reed, P. Blocking latent inhibition. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 29, 292–294 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333922
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333922