Running head: CONTINGENCY LEARNING AND TEMPORAL CONTIGUITY 1 Does Temporal Contiguity Moderate Contingency Learning in a Speeded Performance Task? James R. Schmidt & Jan De Houwer Ghent University Author Notes James R. Schmidt and Jan De Houwer, Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. James R. Schmidt is a postdoctoral fellow of the Scientific Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). This research was supported by a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO) to James R. Schmidt, and by Grants BOF/GOA2006/001 and BOF09/01M00209 of Ghent University to Jan De Houwer. We would like to thank Tom Beckers for his helpful comments. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to James R. Schmidt, Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium. E-mail: james.schmidt@ugent.be.