Recovery from blocking achieved by extinguishing the blocking CS |
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| Authors: | Aaron P Blaisdell Lisa M Gunther Ralph R Miller |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, State University of New York, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY
2. Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina
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| Abstract: | 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). |
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