Recent evidence suggests that controlled reasoning processes play an important role in cue competition in human causal learning (see De Houwer, J., Beckers, T., & Vandorpe, S. (2005). Evidence for the role of higher-order reasoning processes in cue competition and other learning phenomena. Learning &Behavior, 33(2), 239-249, for a review). Until now, this evidence comes almost exclusively from ...

BLOCKING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PHENOMENON IN THE HISTORY OF ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING THEORY: for over 40 years, blocking has inspired a whole generation of learning models. Blocking is part of a family of effects that are typically termed "cue competition" effects. Common amongst all cue competition effects is that a cue-outcome relation is poorly learned or poorly expressed because the cue is trai...

Competition and facilitation between tree individuals are two kinds of non-random processes influencing the structure and functioning of forest communities, but how these two plant-plant interactions change along gradient of resources or environments remains very much a matter of debate. We developed a null model to test the size-distance regression, and assessed the effects of competition and ...

Understanding the factors that allow multiple species to coexist and share resources is an outstanding question in community ecology. Animals tend use different strategies decrease potential competition, through morphological adaptations, establishment of hierarchies, behavioral adaptations or spatial temporal segregation. The main objective this study was infer interspecific processes competit...

We consider a discrete model of population with interaction where the birth and death rates are non linear functions of the population size. After proceeding to renormalization of the model parameters, we obtain in the limit of large population that the population size evolves as a diffusion solution of the SDE