I’m reading this article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395602000997 (using ChatGPT to break it down), and I just don’t get the point.

What I understand is that people with schizophrenia/schizotypy are less prone to Kamin blocking.

But isn’t that... good?

I mean, it says that they first show a person a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus, so the person learns that CS1 predicts the US. Then they show another type of CS2 with the same US.

Isn’t it normal and even healthy for a person to learn that two CSs can predict the same US?

Isn’t Kamin blocking actually a deficit in the processing of information? I mean, to me it seems like it kinda narrows the information processing. If a person can’t get that two different CSs can predict the same US, isn’t that a flaw?

For example, if I’m playing a gambling game with a machine, and first I hear a certain sound and next I recieve a bonus check, and after a while I start hearing a different type of sound before recieving a bonus check.

Isn’t the logical thing to learn that two different kinds of sounds are indicators of recieving a bonus check?

So now I can predict that for whatever of both sounds Im next recieve a bonus check, instead of Kamin blocking ignoring that the second sound can also give me a bonus check.