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Lick suppression experiments with rats revealed that the magnitude of both second-order conditioning (Experiment 1) and sensory preconditioning (Experiment 2) was superior when that conditioning was based on backward (US→CS) relative to forward (CS→US) first-order pairings of a CS and US. The superiority of backward relative to forward first-order conditioning on suppression to the higher order cues can be understood by assuming that the magnitude of higher order conditioning was determined by a memory representation of the higher order cues that provided information about the expected temporal location of the US. The results suggest that temporal information such as order between paired CSs and USs was encoded, preserved, and integrated with memory for the higher order stimuli. The relevance of these findings to memory integration in Pavlovian learning, the temporal coding hypothesis (Barnet, Arnold, & Miller, 1991; Matzel, Held, & Miller, 1988), backward excitatory conditioning, and the associative structure that underlies second-order Pavlovian fear conditioning are discussed. 相似文献
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Jack Edward Sherman 《Learning & behavior》1978,6(4):463-468
Two experiments with rat subjects in a conditioned punishment paradigm are reported. These experiments attempted to determine if the events entering into association with the CS following conditioning with informative (forward) and noninformative (simultaneous) CSs were comparable. In Experiment 1, exposure to intense shock alone following trace (ISI = 10 sec) conditioning with moderate shock enhanced the suppressive effects of a 2-sec CS. A similar manipulation following explicitly unpaired CS-US presentations (ISI = 2 min) had no effect. These data were taken as evidence that the CS and US were associated during trace conditioning. Experiment 2 showed that exposure to intense shock following simultaneous conditioning also enhanced suppression to the CS. These results suggested that simultaneous and forward conditioning procedures yield similar forms of associative learning. 相似文献
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Three experiments investigated conditioning of the rabbit’s nictitating membrane response (NMR) in a second-order conditioning procedure which intermixed first-order trials (CS1-US) and second-order trials (CS2-CS1) from the outset of training. Experiment 1 provided a controlled demonstration that substantial levels of second-order conditioning can be obtained with the NMR preparation. Experiment 2 showed that the level of CR acquisition to CS2 was an inverse function of the CS2-CS1 interval over the values of 400, 800, and 2,400 msec. Experiment 3 found that CR acquisition to CS2 and CS1 in second-order conditioning varied in a parallel fashion across CS1-US intervals. Similarly, Experiment 3A found that the level of CR acquisition to the two components of a serial compound (CSA-CSB-US) varied in a parallel fashion as a function of the CSB-US interval. The results of the CS2-CS1 and CS1-US interval manipulations were all predictable from the known CS-US interval effects in NMR conditioning with a single CS. The present results are discussed with regard to their implications for accounts of serial compound conditioning and second-order conditioning. 相似文献
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In two experiments with rats, we examined the developmental emergence of conditioned freezing following trace and short-delay
conditioning and also included a long-delay comparison group. In the short-delay and trace groups, a 10-sec conditioned stimulus
(CS) was paired with shock; for the trace rats, a 10-sec trace interval followed CS termination. The long-delay groups received
a 20-sec CS paired with shock, to equate for the longer interstimulus interval (ISI) in the trace group. Trace conditioning
emerged later in development than did short-delay conditioning (see Moye & Rudy, 1987). Importantly, long-delay conditioning
emerged in parallel with trace conditioning, at a similar time, and with similar strength. These findings suggest a role for
the longer ISI, as opposed to the unfilled gap per se, in the late emergence of trace conditioning. The role of the hippocampus
in trace conditioning and the possibility that young rats encode the temporal relationship between CSs and unconditioned stimuli
are also considered. 相似文献
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Three experiments with rat subjects examined the effects of contextual stimuli on performance in appetitive conditioning. A 10-sec tone conditioned stimulus (CS) was paired with a food-pellet unconditioned stimulus (US); conditioning was indexed by the observation of headjerking, a response of the rat to auditory stimuli associated with food. In Experiment 1, a context switch following initial conditioning did not affect conditioned responding to the tone; however, when the response was extinguished in the different context, a return to the original conditioning context “renewed” extinguished responding. These results were replicated in Experiments 2 and 3 after equating exposure to the two contexts (Experiment 2) and massing the conditioning and extinction trials (Experiment 3). The results of Experiment 1 also demonstrated that separate exposure to the US following extinction reinstates extinguished responding to the tone; this effect was further shown to depend at least partly on presenting the US in the context in which testing is to occur (Experiments 2 and 3). Overall, the results are consistent with previous data from aversive conditioning procedures. In either appetitive or aversive conditioning, the context may be especially important in affecting performance after extinction. 相似文献
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Peter S. Kaplan 《Learning & behavior》1984,12(2):142-148
Recent reports indicate that conditioning to contextual cues importantly modulates the amount of trace conditioning. According to this view, the strength of conditioning to a trace CS should be inversely related to the extent to which other external stimuli already predict US occurrence. An experiment with pigeons in an autoshaping (sign-tracking) preparation examined this proposition. Insertion of a tone in the 12-sec gap between CS and US led to strong CS responding, except for the case in which the tone also overlapped the CS. However, weak CS responding was obtained when the tone filled only the first or last half of the CS-US gap, even though CS and tone did not overlap. These findings are discussed in terms of an explanation of the effects of gap filling based on conditioning to “local” and “general” contextual cues, and in terms of the possible contributions of second-order conditioning. 相似文献
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Two experiments used rats in a conditioned lick suppression preparation to investigate how the conditioned stimulus (CS)-duration
and partial-reinforcement effects (i.e., weakened responding due to conditioning with a CS of longer duration and presenting
nonreinforced CSs intermingled with CS—unconditioned stimulus [US] pairings, respectively) interact with overshadowing. Experiment
1 found that when overshadowing treatment was combined with either extended CS duration or partial reinforcement, the response
deficit was weaker than when either of these three treatments was administered alone. In Experiment 2, the generality of the
findings in Experiment 1 was investigated by replicating it with various US—US intervals. This time counteraction was observed
only when both the absolute duration of total CS exposure and the US—US interval were short. The results support neither the
view that the ratio between the total CS exposure and total time in the context determines the CS-duration and the partial-reinforcement
effects nor the view that these two effects arise from a loss of effectiveness of the excitatory CS—US association during
CS-alone exposures in partial reinforcement or early periods of CS exposure with long CSs. 相似文献
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Nicholas J. Grahame Robert C. Barnet Lisa M. Gunther Ralph R. Miller 《Learning & behavior》1994,22(4):395-408
Treatments that attenuate latent inhibition (LI) were examined using conditioned suppression in rats. In Experiment 1, retarded conditioned responding was produced by nonreinforced exposure to the CS prior to the CS-US pairings used to assess retardation (i.e., conventional LI). In Experiment la, retarded conditioned responding was induced by preexposure to pairings of the CS and a weak US prior to retardation-test pairings of the CS with a strong US (i.e., Hall-Pearce [1979] LI). Both types of LI were attenuated by extensive exposure to the training context (i.e., context extinction) following the CS-US pairings of the retardation test. Experiment 2 examined the specificity of the attenuated LI effect observed in Experiment 1. After preexposure to two different CSs in two different contexts, each CS was paired with a US in its respective preexposure context. One of the two contexts was then extinguished. This attenuated LI to a greater degree for the CS that had been trained in the extinguished context. Experiment 3 differentiated the roles in LI of CS-context associations and context-US associations. Following preexposure to the CS in the training context, LI was reduced by further exposure to the CS outside the training context. This observation was interpreted as implicating the CS-context association as a factor in LI. Thus, the results of these experiments suggest that LI is a performance deficit mediated by unusually strong CS-context associations. Implications for Wagner’s (1981) SOP model and Miller and Matzel’s (1988) comparator hypothesis are discussed. 相似文献
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Kenneth A. McNish Stephanie L. Betts Susan E. Brandon Allan R. Wagner 《Learning & behavior》1997,25(1):43-52
Two experiments of Pavlovian conditioning with rabbits evaluated the effects of initiating or continuing a conditioned stimulus (CS) after a paraorbital unconditioned stimulus (US). In Experiment 1, backward pairings, in which a CS came on after the US, produced a CS that appeared inhibitory on a measure of eyeblink conditioning but excitatory on a potentiated-startle measure of conditioned fear. In Experiment 2, extending the duration of a CS that came on prior to the US, so that it continued after the US, decreased eyeblink conditioned responses, whereas it increased conditioned fear. The data from the two experiments confirm and extend those of Tait and Saladin (1986), supporting the suppositions of AESOP (Wagner & Brandon, 1989) that conditioned eyeblink and conditioned fear can be dissociated under various temporal relationships between the CS and US. 相似文献
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Stimuli associated with primary reinforcement for instrumental behavior are widely believed to acquire the capacity to function as conditioned reinforcers via Pavlovian conditioning. Some Pavlovian conditioning studies suggest that animals learn the important temporal relations between stimuli and integrate such temporal information over separate experiences to form a temporal map. The present experiment examined whether Pavlovian conditioning can establish a positive instrumental conditioned reinforcer through such temporal integration. Two groups of rats received either delay or trace appetitive conditioning in which a neutral stimulus predicted response-independent food deliveries (CS1→US). Both groups then experienced one session of backward second-order conditioning of the training CS1 and a novel CS2 (CS1–CS2 pairing). Finally, the ability of CS2 to function as a conditioned reinforcer for a new instrumental response (leverpressing) was assessed. Consistent with the previous demonstrations of temporal integration in fear conditioning, a CS2 previously trained in a trace-conditioning protocol served as a better instrumental conditioned reinforcer after backward second-order conditioning than did a CS2 previously trained in a delay protocol. These results suggest that an instrumental conditioned reinforcer can be established via temporal integration and raise challenges for existing quantitative accounts of instrumental conditioned reinforcement. 相似文献
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Three experiments were conducted with male domesticated quail to explore whether sexual responses to a three-dimensional conditioned stimulus (CS) object could be acquired through observation. Observational learning was measured by a savings test in which the observers received exposures to the CS paired with the opportunity to copulate with a female bird (the unconditioned stimulus, or US). In all of the experiments, observing a demonstrator copulate with the CS object and then receive access to the US facilitated the subsequent conditioning of the observers. This facilitation effect was not due to observation of just another male bird (Experiment 1) or observation of a male bird that copulated with the CS object (Experiment 2). Rather, the critical factor was observation of pairings of the CS object with the US. Facilitated sexual conditioning was evident in groups of birds that observed pairings of the CS and US, whether or not they witnessed a demonstrator copulating with the CS object (Experiment 3). 相似文献
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In two conditioned lick suppression experiments with rats, we examined the permanence of the overshadowing effect as a function of the number of compound reinforced training trials. In Experiment 1, robust overshadowing was observed following 4 compound-US pairings but dissipated with 36 pairings. Overshadowing decreased because responding to the overshadowed stimulus increased, not because responding by the control group decreased. This dissipation was stimulus specific and not attributable to a response ceiling. Experiment 2 extended the generality of the effect to a sensory preconditioning design and further demonstrated that overshadowing lost through many compound-US pairings was restored by posttraining extinction of the training context. The results are explicable in terms of the extended comparator hypothesis (Denniston, Savastano, & Miller, 2001) under the assumption that the impacts of first- and second-order comparator processes grow differentially as a function of number of trials. 相似文献
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Initial reinforced training with a conditioned stimulus (CSA) from one sensory modality subsequently facilitates the rate of acquisition of the rabbit’s nictitating membrane response to a second conditioned stimulus (CSB) from a different sensory modality. In Experiment 1, the level of transfer was a direct function of the number of CSA-US pairings (0, 15, 30, 60, and 120). In Experiment 2, cross-modal transfer appeared to be maximal after initial training was conducted to a performance criterion as small as two CRs to CSA. The results are discussed with respect to theories of transfer, particularly a layered network model of conditioning that suggests that CR acquisition to each CS depends on two sequentially organized associations, one unique to the CS and one that is common to all associations involving the target response system. 相似文献
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Three experiments demonstrated that, following the extinction of an established conditioned stimulus (CSA—e.g., tone), the
pairing of a novel, cross-modal stimulus (CSB—e.g., light) with the unconditioned stimulus (US) results in strong recovery
of responding to the extinguished CSA. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the recovery of responding to CSA is not the result
of US reinstatement but is attributable to pairings of CSB with the US. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the recovery of responding
is specific to CSA and is not the result of cross-modal generalization. Experiment 3 revealed that a large number of CSB-US
pairings in Stage 1 significantly reduced the amount of recovery to CSA during subsequent CSB-US trials. Experiment 3 also
provided unexpected evidence of cross-modal secondary extinction. The extinction and subsequent recovery of responding seen
in the present experiments is discussed with respect to possible contributions from contextual associations, CS processing,
US processing, conditioned response expression, and layered excitatory associations. 相似文献
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Chana K. Akins 《Learning & behavior》1998,26(4):416-426
Three experiments were conducted to investigate direct and modulatory influences of context in the conditioned sexual behavior of male Japanese quail. A preference test procedure was used to assess the acquisition of contextual excitation. In Experiment 1, following direct context-unconditioned stimulus (US) pairings, male quail shifted their contextual preference from an initially preferred context to one in which they received copulatory opportunity with a female quail (US). Unpaired control group subjects did not demonstrate this shift in preference. This place preference procedure was used in Experiments 2 and 3 to assess contextual excitation when context was trained in the presence of a discrete conditioned stimulus (CS). Experiment 2 provided evidence that context can modulate responding to a discrete CS. In Experiment 3, we varied the spatial contiguity between the context and the US. Some subjects received the US directly in the training context, whereas other subjects received the US in an alternate context. Contextual excitation was evident only in subjects that received the former. Thus, there is a dissociation between the modulatory and excitatory properties of context in sexual conditioning that may depend on the context-US spatial contiguity. 相似文献
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Four experiments examined the effects of separate presentations of shock on conditioned suppression of instrumental responding evoked by a CS previously paired with shock. Experiment 1 showed that conditioned suppression of responding resulting from noise-shock pairings increased as a function of time after the initial noise-shock pairings. However, it also showed that this time-dependent increase in conditioned suppression of responding could be attenuated by presentations of light-shock pairings immediately prior to the test of the noise CS. Experiment 2 showed that this attenuation effect can be produced by presentations of either light-shock pairings or shock alone. Experiment 3 showed that the magnitude of this attenuation effect was directly related to the temporal proximity of the light-shock pairings to the test of the noise CS. Experiment 4 showed that the magnitude of this attenuation effect was inversely related to the intensity of separate shock presentations. 相似文献
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Latent inhibition refers to attenuated responding to a conditioned stimulus (CS) that was repeatedly presented without reinforcement prior
to the CS-unconditioned stimulus (US) pairings. Using water-deprived rats as subjects, we observed that interpolating task-irrelevant
stimulation between the preexposure and conditioning phases of a latent inhibition procedure attenuated latent inhibition
(Experiments 1A, 1B, and 2). Apparently, interpolated stimulation segments the preexposure and conditioning treatments into
two separate experiences, much in the same way that a change of context would. Consistent with this view, the interpolated
stimulation did not disrupt latent inhibition if it was also presented during both preexposure and conditioning (Experiment
3). We view these results as analogous to those of Escobar, Arcediano, and Miller (2003), who suggested that the difficulty
in observing latent inhibition in human adults is related to the segmentation between preexposure and conditioning caused
by the usual interpolation of instructions in preparations with humans. 相似文献
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In three experiments, groups of albino rats received one strictly simultaneous pairing of a 4-sec auditory conditioned stimulus (CS) and a 4-sec 1-mA shock unconditioned stimulus (US). Other groups received a backward pairing, in which the US began before the CS, or a forward pairing, in which the CS began before the US. Control groups received only the US or received both the CS and the US but widely separated in time. Later, the CS was presented while the rats licked a drinking tube for water, and CS-elicited suppression of licking was taken as an index of the Pavlovian conditioned response (CR). It was found that groups receiving a single forward or a single simultaneous pairing suppressed more than groups that had received a backward pairing; and the backward groups, in turn, suppressed more than the control groups. It appears, then, that excitatory fear conditioning, as reflected in conditioned suppression of licking in rats, can be produced in a single trial by both backward and simultaneous conditioning procedures. 相似文献
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Latent inhibition, which refers to attenuated responding to a conditioned stimulus (CS) after CS-unconditioned stimulus (CS-US) pairings as a result of CS-alone presentations prior to the pairings, is often attenuated if preexposure and conditioning occur in different contexts (i.e., it is context specific). Here we report two conditioned lick suppression experiments, using rat subjects, that examined whether manipulations known to attenuate the context specificity of extinction could also eliminate the context specificity of latent inhibition. Context specificity of latent inhibition was eliminated when the CS was preexposed in multiple contexts (Experiment 1) and when the CS was massively pre-exposed in the training context alone (Experiment 2). These results and their practical implications are discussed in the framework of contemporary theories of latent inhibition. 相似文献
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Conditioned suppression in rats is often unaffected when the context (or set of background stimuli) is changed following conditioning. This suggests that responding to the conditioned stimulus (CS) can be relatively insensitive to the context in which the CS is presented. In two experiments, we examined whether sensitivity to contextual stimuli is affected by preexposure to the CS. In Experiment 1, when the CS was novel at the outset of conditioning, conditioned suppression was not affected when the context was changed following conditioning. However, when the CS had been preexposed, responding was weaker when extinction occurred outside of the conditioning context. In Experiment 2, responding was again sensitive to the test context, regardless of whether preexposure occurred in the conditioning context or in an alternate context. These results suggest that the extent to which responding is sensitive to context can depend on the conditioning history of the CS. 相似文献