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The liberation of attention for new learning that is seen when an unconditioned stimulus is either more or less than expected. This is an effect seen in classical (Pavlovian) conditioning and a constraint on the general importance of temporal coincidence as the sole determinant of new learning.
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Cassaday, H.J. (2010). Unblocking. In: Stolerman, I.P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68706-1_529
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