Outcome-specific conditioned inhibition in Pavlovian backward conditioning |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Andrew?R?DelamaterEmail author Wendy?Sosa Vincent?M?LoLordo |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK;(2) Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA 19486, USA; |
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| Abstract: | In the present experiments, the outcome specificity of learning was explored in an appetitive Pavlovian backward conditioning procedure with rats. The rats initially were administered Pavlovian backward training with two qualitatively different unconditioned stimulus conditioned-stimulus (US-CS) pairs of stimuli (e.g., pellet --> noise or sucrose --> light), and then the effects of this training were assessed in Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (Experiment 1) and retardation-of-learning (Experiment 2) tests. In the transfer test, it was shown that during the last 10-sec interval, the CSs selectively reduced the rate of the instrumental responses with which they shared a US, relative to the instrumental responses with which they did not share a US. The opposite result was obtained when the USs (in the absence of the CSs) were presented noncontingently. In the retardation test, conditioned magazine approach, responding to the CSs was acquired more slowly when the stimulus-outcome combinations in the backward and the forward conditioning phases were the same, as compared with when they were reversed. These results are collectively in accord with the view that Pavlovian backward conditioning can result in the formation of outcome-specific inhibitory associations. Alternative views of backward conditioning are also examined. |
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