Secondary extinction in Pavlovian fear conditioning |
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| Authors: | Drina Vurbic Mark E Bouton |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, 2 Colchester Ave., Burlington, VT 05401-0134, USA; |
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| Abstract: | Pavlov (1927/1960) reported that following the conditioning of several stimuli, extinction of one conditioned stimulus (CS) attenuated responding
to others that had not undergone direct extinction. However, this secondary extinction effect has not been widely replicated in the contemporary literature. In three conditioned suppression experiments with rats,
we further explored the phenomenon. In Experiment 1, we asked whether secondary extinction is more likely to occur with target
CSs that have themselves undergone some prior extinction. A robust secondary extinction effect was obtained with a nonextinguished
target CS. Experiment 2 showed that extinction of one CS was sufficient to reduce renewal of a second CS when it was tested
in a neutral (nonextinction) context. In Experiment 3, secondary extinction was observed in groups that initially received
intermixed conditioning trials with the target and nontarget CSs, but not in groups that received conditioning of the two
CSs in separate sessions. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that CSs must be associated with a common temporal
context during conditioning for secondary extinction to occur. |
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