Bo Dong

Reward produces learning of a consciously inaccessible feature.

British Journal of Psychology February 2022 Xue Dong, Mingxia Zhang, Bo Dong et al.

Reward has a significant impact on behaviour and perception. Most past work in associative reward learning has used perceptually distinct visual cues to associate with different reward values. Thus, it remains unknown to what extent the learned bias towards reward-associated stimuli depends on consciousness of the apparent differences between stimuli. Here, we resolved this issue by using an...