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When people judge the contingency between a target cue and an outcome, they also take into account the contingency between the outcome and other cues with which the target cue co-occurred. Several authors have argued that such cue competition effects are due to higher order reasoning processes. We review the evidence that supports this hypothesis and discuss whether higher order reasoning might also play a role in other learning phenomena.
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De Houwer, J., Vandorpe, S. & Beckers, T. Evidence for the role of higher order reasoning processes in cue competition and other learning phenomena. Learning & Behavior 33, 239–249 (2005). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196066
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