A preregistered multi-lab replication of Maier et al. (2014, Exp. 4) testing retroactive avoidance.
PLoS One August 31, 2020 Markus A Maier, Vanessa L Buechner, Moritz C. Dechamps et al.
The term "retroactive avoidance" refers to a special class of effects of future stimulus presentations on past behavioral responses. Specifically, it refers to the anticipatory avoidance of aversive stimuli that were unpredictable through random selection after the response. This phenomenon is supposed to challenge the common view of the arrow of time and the direction of causality. Preliminary...
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Brain
Humans
Bayes theorem
Avoidance learning
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