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Contingency and the McCollough effect
Journal article

Contingency and the McCollough effect

Abstract

According to a Pavlovian conditioning analysis of the orientation-contingent color aftereffect (the McCollough effect), orientation stimuli become associated with simultaneously presented chromatic stimuli. This account suggests that decreasing the contingency between the putative conditional stimulus (grid orientation) and the unconditional stimulus (color) should decrease the strength of the aftereffect. In the present experiment, the effect …

Authors

Siegel S; Allan LG

Journal

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 281–285

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

May 1987

DOI

10.3758/bf03203080

ISSN

1943-3921