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María Teresa Rodríguez García¹, Andrés García García, María Teresa Gutiérrez Domínguez

¹Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Sevilla, Spain.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Cognitive Science
Behavioral Neuroscience

Background:

Understanding how humans process and integrate different sensory inputs is crucial for explaining decision-making.
Conditional discrimination tasks are valuable tools for investigating the influence of specific stimuli on behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relative influence of exteroceptive and proprioceptive stimuli in a conditional discrimination task.
To explore how humans learn to discriminate between compound stimuli composed of visual and kinesthetic elements.

Main Methods:

A conditional discrimination procedure was employed with human participants aged 7-53.
Compound samples, combining colored geometric shapes (exteroceptive) and pointing gestures (proprioceptive), were used for training.
Subsequent evaluation involved unitary samples to assess the independent impact of each stimulus component.

Main Results:

Exteroceptive stimuli (visual cues) demonstrated a stronger influence on participants' chosen behavior compared to proprioceptive stimuli (movement cues).
The findings suggest a hierarchy in sensory processing, with visual information playing a more dominant role in this specific task.

Conclusions:

Visual sensory information appears to exert greater control over behavior in conditional discrimination tasks involving combined stimuli.
The results contribute to understanding the origins of discriminative control and the interplay between self-generated actions and external cues.