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Human appetitive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: a goal-directed account

Human appetitive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: a goal-directed account
Human appetitive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: a goal-directed account
Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) tasks assess the impact of environmental stimuli on instrumental actions. Since their initial translation from animal to human experiments, PIT tasks have provided insight in to the mechanisms that underlie reward-based behaviour. This review first examines the main types of PIT tasks used in humans. We then seek to contribute to the current debate as to whether human PIT effects reflect a controlled, goal-directed process, or a more automatic, non-goal-directed mechanism. We argue that the data favour a goal-directed process. The extent to which the major theories of PIT can account for these data is then explored. We discuss a number of associative accounts of PIT, as well as dual-process versions of these theories. Ultimately, however, we favour a propositional account, in which human PIT effects are suggested to be driven by both perceived outcome availability and outcome value. In the final section of the review, we present the potential objections to the propositional approach that we anticipate from advocates of associative-link theories, and our response to them. We also identify areas for future research.
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449-463
Mahlberg, Justin
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Mahlberg, Justin, Seabrooke, Tina, Weidemann, Gabrielle, Hogarth, Lee, Mitchell, Chris and Moustafa, Ahmed (2021) Human appetitive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer: a goal-directed account. Psychological Research, 85 (2), 449-463. (doi:10.1007/s00426-019-01266-3).

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Abstract

Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) tasks assess the impact of environmental stimuli on instrumental actions. Since their initial translation from animal to human experiments, PIT tasks have provided insight in to the mechanisms that underlie reward-based behaviour. This review first examines the main types of PIT tasks used in humans. We then seek to contribute to the current debate as to whether human PIT effects reflect a controlled, goal-directed process, or a more automatic, non-goal-directed mechanism. We argue that the data favour a goal-directed process. The extent to which the major theories of PIT can account for these data is then explored. We discuss a number of associative accounts of PIT, as well as dual-process versions of these theories. Ultimately, however, we favour a propositional account, in which human PIT effects are suggested to be driven by both perceived outcome availability and outcome value. In the final section of the review, we present the potential objections to the propositional approach that we anticipate from advocates of associative-link theories, and our response to them. We also identify areas for future research.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 November 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 November 2019
Published date: March 2021
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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Local EPrints ID: 435794
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/435794
ISSN: 0340-0727
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ORCID for Tina Seabrooke: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4119-8389

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Last modified: 24 May 2024 04:01

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Author: Justin Mahlberg
Author: Tina Seabrooke ORCID iD
Author: Gabrielle Weidemann
Author: Lee Hogarth
Author: Chris Mitchell
Author: Ahmed Moustafa

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