Symposium: Some New Findings from Research on Emergent Relations

The symposium from the research group Experimental Studies of Complex Human Behavior at Oslo Metropolitan University will include a selection of experiments on emergent relations. The experiments have focused on different research questions within different domains of behavior analysis and also with a variety of participants. The symposium will start with a brief overview and introduction of stimulus equivalence. After that, the presenters will discuss results from basic research (for example, nodal distance theory) to translational research (variables influencing remember in people with dementia). Three main learning goals are: The attendees will learn about the definition of emergent relations, how number of nodes could influence equivalence class formation, variable influencing delayed emergence and arrangements that could influence how people with dementia solve tasks involving delayed matching-to-sample.