Research project: Elemental and configural processes

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Associative learning theories are concerned with the mechanisms that underlie the capacity of animals (including humans) to learn about the relationships between stimuli that occur in their environments. This capacity is fundamental to everyday functioning since it allows prediction of environmental events and selection of appropriate behaviours. Drs Glautier and Redhead are involved with a number of projects that address the question of how complex stimuli are processed by the learning mechanism.