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The Implicit Association Test
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2023
Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University One of the core constructs in social psychology is the notion of an attitude toward an object or person. Traditionally, psychologists measured attitudes by simply asking people to self-report their beliefs, opinions, or feelings. This approach has limitations, however, when measuring socially sensitive attitudes, like racial prejudice, because people are often motivated to self-report unprejudiced, egalitarian beliefs (despite...
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Development of an Audio-based Virtual Gaming Environment to Assist with Navigation Skills in the Blind
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2013
Audio-based Environment Simulator (AbES) is virtual environment software designed to improve real world navigation skills in the blind.
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Ionic Association
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2026
The ionic association is the association of oppositely charged ions in an electrolyte solution to form ion pairs. Bjerrum defined ion pairs as two oppositely charged ions whose electrostatic attraction exceeds the thermal energy of the system, typically expressed as 2kT. Electrostatic attraction depends on ionic charge, separation distance, and the dielectric constant of the medium. Thermal energy, represented by kT, reflects the tendency of ions to move independently due to molecular motion.
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Assessment of Audio-Tactile Sensory Substitution Training in Participants with Profound Deafness Using the Event-Related Potential Technique
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2022
This protocol is designed to explore underlying learning-related electrophysiological changes in subjects with profound deafness after a short training period in audio-tactile sensory substitution by applying the event-related potential technique.
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Associative Learning
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2024
Associative learning is a fundamental concept in behavioral psychology, wherein a connection is established between two stimuli or events, leading to a learned response. This process is critical in understanding how behaviors are acquired and modified. Conditioning, the mechanism through which associations are formed, can be divided into two main types: classical conditioning and operant conditioning, each elucidating different aspects of associative learning. Classical conditioning, also known...
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The key change is that the sound becomes predictive: its occurrence signals that a meaningful event or response is relevant, even when that event is not currently presented. This separation lets researchers examine whether behavior is guided by learned expectations rather than only by an immediate stimulus, making the sound useful for studying learning and memory.
Repeated pairings provide the learning experience through which the auditory cue acquires significance. The important variable is not the sound alone, but its consistent relationship with a meaningful consequence. Once that relationship has been established, presenting the cue by itself can reveal whether the learned connection influences behavior, attention, or memory.
Audio association can be used to investigate stimulus control, the extent to which a particular cue guides behavior. By focusing on what happens when the sound is present without the original stimulus, researchers can examine whether behavior comes under the sound’s influence. This makes the approach relevant to attention as well as learned behavioral responding.
A basic study first identifies an auditory cue and a meaningful stimulus, event, or response to pair with it. The pairing is repeated so the relationship can be learned. Researchers then present the sound in the relevant behavioral test, including conditions in which the original stimulus is absent, to examine its acquired influence.
Researchers can apply this approach when they need to examine learning, memory, attention, or responses controlled by environmental sounds. Because the same logic can be studied in humans and other animals, it supports cross-species behavioral investigations. The resulting observations can show how auditory cues acquire behavioral relevance without requiring the meaningful event to remain present.
In behavior research, audio association provides a framework for studying how sounds participate in conditioning and communication. It can also clarify how organisms respond to environmental cues that predict meaningful events. These applications extend the approach beyond a single laboratory response, linking auditory learning with broader questions about how behavior is organized by signals in the surrounding environment.