Relative salience versus relative validity: cue salience influences blocking in human associative learning.

@article{LePelley2014RelativeSV,
  title={Relative salience versus relative validity: cue salience influences blocking in human associative learning.},
  author={Mike E. Le Pelley and Tom Beesley and Oren Griffiths},
  journal={Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition},
  year={2014},
  volume={40 1},
  pages={
          116-32
        }
}
Two studies of human contingency learning investigated the influence of stimulus salience on the cue competition effect of blocking. These studies demonstrated that blocking (defined as a difference in responding to blocked and control cues) was greater for target cues that had high "semantic salience" than those of lower salience. Moreover participants showed weaker responding to high salience blocked cues than low salience blocked cues, but a corresponding difference was not observed for… 
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