We find here that WMC is not related to spatial orienting itself or combined cuing where a cue provides information concerning the anticipated correct response.
With regards to these considerations, the focus of our experiment was to verify whether different ways to distribute a given amount of money, affects effort and cooperation within a context where interaction between individuals does not involve any explicit process related to emotional cues and/or to strategic or "perspective-taking" considerations.
In one study, rats were trained to fear a particular context (cage) or a cue (white light) by pairing them with a mild shock.
This is contrasted with activity during blocking where a novel cue is followed by the same reward associated with the familiar cue.
More rostrally, the posterior PFC (Fig. 1, blue region Y) begins to represent information regarding the current and immediate context in which the stimulus appears, for example, in tasks where an instruction cue indicates how the stimulus should be processed.
Participants were told that stop-signals were least likely in the context of a yellow cue and most likely in the context of a red cue, with the amber and orange cues coding intermediate stop-signal probabilities.
The present study focuses on a more complex version of this task, where probabilistic context (percentage of cue validity) changes unpredictably over time, thereby creating a volatile environment.
Müsseler and Aschersleben (1998, Experiment 4) already conducted an experiment with constant-context conditions in which they presented a cue above and below the location where the horizontally moving stimulus appeared.
"It's a cue to where they are," he said.
This is where progressives need to take a cue from the Tea Party.
NAB mice showed little freezing behaviour (around 15%), irrespective of whether the CS was a cue or the context.
