“…For example, Pearce's configural theory (Pearce, 1987(Pearce, , 1994 is better than the Rescorla-Wagner model (Rescorla & Wagner, 1972) in accounting for resistance to interference ( , ; , , y , , (Pearce & Wilson, 1991;Shanks, Charles, Darby, & Azmi, 1998;Williams, Gawel, Reimer, & Mehta, 2005) and for salience effects in disd crimination learning (Pearce & Redhead, 1993;Redhead & Pearce, 1995), whereas the Rescorla-Wagner model is better able to account for summation (Myers, Vogel, Shin, & Wagner, 2001;Rescorla, 1997Rescorla, , 1999Wagner, 2003) and relative validity (Wagner, Logan, Haberlandt, t & Price, 1968). Thus, there is growing acceptance that r the extent to which stimuli are processed configurally or elementally is flexible, rather than representing mutually exclusive alternatives.…”