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Philippe Oberling Adam S. Bristol Helena Matute Ralph R. Miller 《Learning & behavior》2000,28(2):172-186
Miller and Matute (1996) showed that blocking is attenuated when the blocked conditioned stimulus (CS) is “biologically significant” (i.e., when the CS has the potential to elicit vigorous responding of any kind). To the extent that blocking is representative of cue competition, this finding suggests that biological significance protects CSs against cue competition effects in general. In the present experiments, we tested this possibility by examining the influence of biological significance of CSs on other examples of cue competition, namely, overshadowing, the relative stimulus validity effect, and the degraded contingency effect in rats. In Experiment 1, we found that intense auditory stimuli induced transient unconditioned lick suppression, thereby indicating that intense sounds were of high inherent biological significance. In Experiment 2A, we found that cues with high inherent biological significance were protected from overshadowing. In Experiment 2B, this finding was extended to cues with high acquired biological significance, which was obtained through prior pairings with a reinforcer of the valence opposite to that used in the overshadowing treatment. In Experiments 3 and 4, we found that cues with high inherent biological significance attenuated the relative validity effect and the degraded contingency effect, respectively. These results lend support to the view that biological significance (inherent and acquired) protects stimuli from cue competition effects, a finding that is problematic for many contemporary theories of learning. 相似文献
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Three conditioned lick suppression experiments with rats were performed to assess the influence, following compound training
of two stimuli (A and X) with the same outcome (AX-O trials), of extending training of the blocking association (i.e., A-O)
on responding to the target stimulus (X) at test. In Experiment 1, backward blocking was attenuated when the blocking association
was extensively trained. Experiment 2 showed that forward blocking was also attenuated by extensive further training of the
blocking association following the AX-O trials. Experiment 3 contrasted candidate explanations of the results of Experiments
1 and 2 and demonstrated that these results are consistent with the framework of the extended comparator hypothesis (Denniston,
Savastano, & Miller, 2001). 相似文献
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Two experiments tested blocking in landmark-based search in honeybees. Honeybees in the experimental group were trained in Phase 1 with a single landmark in a constant spatial relation to the target (sugar water). In the compound training second phase, the landmark used in Phase 1 (blocking landmark) and a new landmark (blocked landmark) were presented at constant spatial relations to the target. The blocking and blocked landmarks differed from each other in color and position, and the blocking landmark retained the same spatial relationship to the target as in Phase 1. In Experiment 1, the control group experienced only Phase 2 training with two landmarks. In Experiment 2, the control group was trained with a different landmark in a different position in Phase 1. Blocking was found in both cases. 相似文献
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In a Pavlovian conditioning situation, an initially neutral stimulus may be made excitatory by nonreinforced presentations
in compound with an established conditioned excitor [i.e., second-order conditioning (SOC)]. The established excitor may be
either a punctate cue or the training context. In four conditioned suppression experiments using rats, we investigated whether
SOC phenomena parallel other cue interaction effects. In Experiment 1, we found that the response potential of a target stimulus
was directly related to the intertrial interval when SOC was mediated by a punctate cue, and inversely related to the intertrial
interval when SOC was mediated by the training context. Experiment 2 demonstrated that punctate- and context-mediated SOC
are oppositely affected by posttraining context extinction, and Experiments 3 and 4 demonstrated that context- and punctate-mediated
SOC are differentially affected by conditioned stimulus (Experiment 3) and unconditioned stimulus (Experiment 4) preexposure
treatments. These findings parallel phenomena in conditioned inhibition and cue competition situations. 相似文献
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In the blocking phase of three experiments, rats had to find a submerged platform beneath a spherical landmark in one corner
of a triangular pool. Prior to this treatment, they were required to find the platform relative to either a sphere above it
(blocking groups) or a rod attached to it (control groups). The position of the platform changed from trial to trial for the
initial training. The sphere did not restrict learning about the geometric cues provided by the triangular arena in the blocking
phase when 12 sessions of initial training took place in either the triangular (Experiment 1) or a circular (Experiment 3)
pool. Blocking was observed, however, after 24 sessions of initial training in either the triangular (Experiment 2) or the
circular (Experiment 3) pool. Thus, blocking of geometric cues by a landmark is possible after extended initial training with
the blocking cue. 相似文献
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In three human causal learning experiments, we examined attentional modulation in the blocking task, in which participants
typically learn little about a novel cue B when it is paired with a previously trained, predictive cue A. Evidence indicates
that this blocking training led to a decrement in attention to the blocked cue B. The present experiments addressed whether
this decrease in attention to the blocked cue could be better explained as being due to lateral inhibition from the pretrained
cue A to the blocked cue B, or as a cue-specific property that is not conditional on the presence or absence of other stimuli.
Strong effects of learned predictiveness were observed on participants’ causal judgments (Experiment 1) and choice behavior
(Experiments 2 and 3). However, no evidence for lateral inhibitory processes emerged in any of the experiments, despite explicit
attempts to maximize experimental sensitivity to this effect. The results are discussed in the context of formal models of
the operation of attentional processes in human and animal learning. 相似文献
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Associative learning theories assume that cue interaction and, specifically, retrospective revaluation occur only when the target cue is previously trained in compound with the to-be-revalued cue. However, there are recent demonstrations of retrospective revaluation in the absence of compound training (e.g., Matute &; Pineño, 1998a, 1998b). Nevertheless, it seems reasonable to assume that cue interaction should be stronger when the cues are trained together than when they are trained apart. In two experiments with humans, we directly compared compound and elemental training of cues. The results showed that retrospective revaluation in the elemental condition can be as strong as and, sometimes, stronger than that in the compound condition. This suggests that within-compound associations are not necessary for retrospective revaluation to occur and that these effects can possibly be best understood in the framework of general interference theory. 相似文献
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In Experiment 1, a group of rats were runway trained on each of two reward series for 32 days. The two series consisted of three runs, the first two of which were, respectively, rewarded and nonrewarded; the third run was rewarded in one series but nonrewarded in the other. A 40-min interval separated the two series; the first and second runs within the series were separated by a 10-min interval, whereas the second and third runs were separated by a 30-sec interval. The reward (and nonreward) events and temporal cues of the two series are designated R-NR/R-NN. A second group was similarly trained, with the exception that the 10-min interval separated the second and third runs (RN-R/RN-N). Both groups developed appropriate differential running on the third run of the two series, and the RN-R/RN-N animals ran appropriately (slowly) on the second run of both series. Appropriate Run 2 performance appeared in one half of the R-NR/R-NN animals (depending upon order of series presentation); the remaining half ran faster on Run 2 of the R-NR series than on the same run of the R-NN series, an effect currently termed interevent anticipation. A cue shift phase in which all within-series intervals were 30 sec showed that the temporal intervals were controlling performance before the shift. Experiment 2 showed that interevent anticipation appears when all within-series intervals are either 10 min or 30 sec from the beginning of training, suggesting that the elimination of interevent anticipation in Experiment 1 was due to the differential cuing of runs by the temporal intervals rather than the particular interval duration. The overall findings suggest that the similarity of Run 2 and Run 3 performance termed interevent anticipation may be due to a failure to discriminate the ordinal position of runs within a series. 相似文献
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Batsell WR Wakefield E Ulrey LA Reimink K Rowe SL Dexheimer S 《Learning & behavior》2012,40(2):180-194
The present series of five flavor aversion experiments with rat subjects examined compound conditioning at varying CS-US intervals. Using a taste-taste design, Experiments 1A and 1B demonstrated overshadowing at a 0-min CS-US interval and potentiation at a 120-min CS-US interval, and these effects occurred with both tastes of the compound. Experiment 2 showed that the aversion to a single element is reduced when the CS-US interval is increased to 120 min, but the aversion for a compound taste is not. Experiments 3A and 3B explored odor + taste compound conditioning; the results demonstrated odor potentiation across the trace interval and a transition from taste overshadowing to taste potentiation. Collectively, the data show that the change from overshadowing to potentiation was not due to changes in the aversions produced by compound conditioning but, instead, was due to a more rapid loss of conditionability across a trace interval prior to the US in single-element conditioning. These experiments suggest that following compound conditioning, the aversion to each element represents generalization decrement from the configured compound, but the designation of overshadowing or potentiation actually depends on the status of conditioning in the single-element control. 相似文献
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Retroactive interference is conventionally viewed as attenuated retrieval of a target association due to the training of a
second association between training and testing of the target association. In three experiments in which water-deprived rats
were used as subjects, we manipulated the durations of the time between cue termination and outcome onset (Experiment 1),
the durations of the target and the interfering cues (Experiment 2), and the durations of the outcome used during target and
interfering training (Experiment 3). Greater interference was consistently observed between associations bearing a high degree
of similarity in their temporal structure, which suggests that interference occurs between complex representations that encode
not only the physical attributes of the stimuli, but also their temporal characteristics. 相似文献
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A series of experiments was conducted to examine the phenomenon of potentiation. Experiment 1 demonstrated potentiation of odor aversions by taste when morphine served as the unconditioned stimulus (US). Experiment 2 provided evidence that the observed potentiation was due to a within-event association between odor and taste stimuli, rather than reflecting an enhanced odor-morphine association. In Experiment 3, morphine supported place conditioning to contextual cues and aversive conditioning to a taste cue, but potentiation of place conditioning by a taste cue was not obtained. Apparently the absence of potentiation was due to the dual nature of the morphine US, as potentiation of a contextual aversion by taste was obtained in Experiment 4 when a strictly aversive US (lithium) was used. These data suggest that potentiation depends on (1) an initially weak association between the to-be-potentiated conditioned stimulus (CS) element and the US, and (2) the elicitation of qualitatively similar responses by the individual elements of the CS compound. Collectively, these results support an explanation of potentiation based on within-event learning. 相似文献
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Recent evidence indicates that prior learning about a set of cues may determine how new cues are processed. If subjects are
taught that two reliable predictors of an outcome do not summate when the cues are presented together (i.e., subadditive pretraining),
the subjects will tend to show a less profound blocking effect when trained with different cues. Three experiments investigated
the conditions necessary for subadditive pretraining to generalize to new cues. Experiment 1 demonstrated that subadditive
pretraining is less effective in reducing blocking when it is experienced in a context other than that in which the blocking
training is experienced. In Experiment 2, the effectiveness of subadditive pretraining waned with time. Experiment 3 showed
that subadditive pretraining is more effective when the temporal characteristics of pretraining cues are similar to those
of the cues used in blocking training. These results provide information concerning the conditions under which learning will
generalize from one set of cues to another. 相似文献
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Three experiments on classical differential conditioning of the human skin conductance response to elemental and compound stimuli are reported. Subjects in Experiment 1 received both positive and negative patterning training, followed by either positive or negative patterning transfer tests on new stimuli. In positive patterning, a compound of two stimuli is reinforced and its elements are nonreinforced. In negative patterning, the elements are reinforced and the compound is nonreinforced. Subjects in Experiments 2 and 3 received either positive or negative patterning during training, followed by transfer tests on new stimuli. In Experiment 2, the transfer series began with new elements, after which their compound was presented; in Experiment 3, the new compound was presented first in the transfer series, and then the separate elements were administered. All three experiments provided evidence of the acquisition of positive patterning, while negative patterning was found only in Experiments 2 and 3. Positive patterning transferred to new stimuli, indicating that it was not attributable solely to summation of sub-threshold excitation conditioned to the elements on reinforced compound trials. This finding, coupled with the negative patterning found in Experiments 2 and 3, provided support for the unique cue hypothesis. It was concluded that the assumed unique cue constituted a learned “rule,” and that the actual elemental stimuli were neither perceptually nor otherwise modified during the conditioning process. 相似文献
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The ability of pigeons to use event durations as remember (R) and forget (F) cues for temporal samples was examined. Pigeons were required to indicate whether a houselight sample stimulus was short (2 sec) or long (6 sec) by pecking a red or a green comparison stimulus. After training with a constant 10-sec delay interval, temporal cues (illumination of the center key) were presented 2 sec after the offset of the temporal samples. For one group, a short (2-sec) temporal cue served as the R cue and a long (6-3ec) temporal cue served as the F cue. This was reversed for a second group of birds. During training, comparison stimuli were always presented following the temporal R cue, but never following the temporal F cue. Tests for the effectiveness of the temporal R and F cues showed that F cues were equally effective in reducing matching accuracy in both groups of birds. It was concluded that pigeons used the duration of the cue to determine whether or not to rehearse the memory code for the temporal sample. 相似文献
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The blocking phenomenon was investigated in the sexual response system of male Japanese quail. Access to a live female quail served as the unconditioned stimulus (US). The same audiovisual cue served as the pretrained stimulus in all of the experiments. Following asymptotic conditioning of the audiovisual cue, a second conditioned stimulus (CS2) was added. In Experiment 1, CS2 was a rectangular wood block that had little or no resemblance to a female quail and could not support copulatory behavior. In Experiment 2, CS2 was a terrycloth object that had no quail parts but could support copulatory behavior, and, in Experiment 3, CS2 was a terrycloth object that had a taxidermically prepared head of a female quail added. The terrycloth-only object supported more rapid conditioning than did the wood block, but the blocking effect was obtained with both kinds of stimuli. Approach responding to the terrycloth + head object required pairing it with copulatory opportunity, and the terrycloth + head object supported at least as rapid conditioning as did the terrycloth-only object. However, responding to the terrycloth + head object was not blocked by the pretrained audiovisual cue. These results indicate that the blocking effect occurs in sexual conditioning even with stimulus objects that can support copulation. However, the addition of species-typical head cues to an object makes that object such a powerful stimulus that conditioned approach responding to it cannot be blocked by a previously conditioned arbitrary audiovisual cue. 相似文献
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Extinction-induced attenuation of single-phase and two-phase blocking was examined with rats in a conditioned lick-suppression
task. In Experiment 1, which compared the effectiveness of single- and two-phase blocking, it was found that single-phase
blocking was facilitated by the initiation of training with an A-US trial rather than an AX-US trial. Single-phase (but not
two-phase) blocking was attenuated as a result of 200 extinction trials with the blocking stimulus (Experiment 2). Experiment
3 revealed recovery from two-phase blocking after 800 extinction trials with the blocking stimulus. Recovery from both types
of blocking was specific to the blocked CS trained in compound with the extinguished stimulus (Experiment 4). This is the
first article to report that the blocking deficit can be reversed by extinguishing the blocking stimulus. These results are
discussed in light of acquisition models (i.e., retrospective revaluation) and expression models (i.e., the comparator hypothesis). 相似文献
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Imposition of a retention interval between cue-outcome pairings and testing can alleviate the retardation of conditioned responding induced by pretraining exposure to the cue (i.e., the CS-preexposure effect). However, recent studies have reported an enhanced effect of CS-preexposure treatment with longer retention intervals (De la Casa & Lubow, 2000, 2002; Lubow & De la Casa, 2002). In a series of conditioned barpress suppression studies with rats, we examined the effects of imposing a retention interval just prior to testing following either CS-preexposure (cue alone before cue-outcome pairings) or extinction (cue alone after cue-outcome pairings) treatments. Experiment 1 replicated in a different preparation recent reports of CS-preexposure treatment effects increasing with longer retention intervals. Experiment 2 showed that spontaneous recovery of stimulus control of behavior after extinction can be obtained with the same parameters as those used to observe the augmented effect of CS-preexposure treatment. In Experiment 3, both the augmented effect of CS-preexposure treatment and spontaneous recovery from extinction were found when we used, in place of a retention interval, an associative priming manipulation. 相似文献
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In two experiments, rats received preexposure consisting of six intraperitoneal injections of lithium chloride (LiCl). This
treatment reduced the magnitude of the unconditioned response (UR; suppressed consumption of a novel flavor) evoked by an
additional injection (Experiment 1) or by oral consumption (Experiment 2) of LiCl. In both experiments, preexposure also attenuated
the acquisition of a conditioned aversion with an LiCl injection as the unconditioned stimulus (US) but had no effect on the
aversion produced when the US was oral consumption of LiCl (Experiment 2). These results are consistent with the view that
the reduced ability of the preexposed US to serve as a reinforcer depends on blocking by injection-related cues and is independent
of habituation of the UR recorded in the present study. Possible interpretations of this dissociation are discussed. 相似文献
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Two experiments investigated transfer of the rabbit’s conditioned nictitating membrane response (NMR) from shorter to longer CS-US intervals in conjunction with a change in CS modality, for example, light to tone. In Experiment 1, three experimental groups received initial training with a 400-msec CS-US interval, which produced substantial CR acquisition, and three control groups received initial training with a 2,800-msec CS-US interval, which produced minimal CR acquisition. Subsequently, the experimental and control groups received training with an 800-, 1,800-, or 2,800-msec CS-US trace interval. At the same time, the modality of the CS was changed from tone to light (or vice versa). Experiment 2 contained three groups that received initial exposure to a 400-msec CS-US interval, a 2,800-msec CS-US interval, or just the experimental chambers. Subsequently, all three groups received training with an 800-msec CS-US interval in a different CS modality. The results of both experiments revealed substantial positive transfer across CS modalities from the 400-msec CS-US interval to the 800-msec CS-US interval. There was also significant transfer to the 1,800-msec but not the 2,800-msec CS-US interval. The transfer did not appear immediately on test presentations of the second CS. Rather, the transfer appeared as an enhancement in the rate of CR acquisition after reinforced training with the second CS had commenced. The results are discussed with respect to mechanisms of transfer and facilitation of trace conditioning. 相似文献
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It is generally agreed that the Kamin blocking effect provides a differential test of the model of classical conditioning proposed by Rescorla and Wagner (1972), on the one hand, and the models proposed by Mackintosh (1975) and Pearce and Hall (1980), on the other. Specifically, if the blocking effect occurs with 1 compound trial, Rescorla and Wagner are supported. Experiment 1 showed that prior training with one element of a simultaneous compound stimulus prevented the added element from becoming conditioned with 10 compound trials when compared with a nonpretrained (Kamin) control. A pseudoconditioning control, which received no compound training, showed substantial suppression only on the first trial. A contextual conditioning control, which received unsignaled shock prior to compound training, was suppressed, suggesting a failure of conditioning to contextual cues. Experiment 2 demonstrated 1-compound-trial blocking using a simultaneous presentation of the compound elements. The importance of this support for the Rescorla-Wagner model is discussed in the light of other supportive studies and those which support alternative models of classical conditioning. 相似文献