Instead, we suggest that subjects in experiment 2 expected a right cue and accordingly prepared to make a movement of the right finger.
Nine seconds after the painful heat stimulus, when no further pain was expected, a control cue was displayed for 5 seconds.
Thus, when cues are presented in the opposite spatial arrangement it would be expected that a cue would still elicit the same egocentric response, although to a lesser extent due to generalization decrement, which would result in mice entering the wrong goal arm (e.g., cue A+ on the right elicits a go left response).
"When a person expects a context or cue (e.g., Christmas or a Star Wars film) to predict a rewarding experience," Dr. Falconer explained, "anticipation triggers arousal and dopamine neurons firing in the midbrain.
As expected, a significant hemisphere × cue direction interaction was only present for the 425 500 ms interval (F 1,17) = 6.4; p < .03), reflecting the emergence of the LDAP component.
As expected, a main effect of endogenous cue validity was observed, showing that participants responded faster to a cue that indicated the correct location of the target (valid = 422 ms, invalid = 453 ms) [ F 1, 17) = 10.604, p =.005, ηp =.384, power =.866].
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If the dot positions had been randomized for every stimulus display, so as not to introduce pattern repetition or similar contextual cues, we might expect a stronger visual field effect.
From an evolutionary perspective, if survival is secured by processing these perceptual cues, why should we expect a perceptual system separately specialized to abstract numerical magnitudes?
This is to be expected because cue location repetitions were uncorrelated with the experimental variables.
This finding results from the fact that older adults less often chose the higher expected value cue during both gain and loss learning particularly during the early phase of learning (see Supplementary Information S4).
