Retardation of conditioned excitation following operational inhibitory blocking |
| |
| Authors: | Todd R Schachtman Louis D Matzel Ralph R Miller |
| |
| Institution: | 1. State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York
|
| |
| Abstract: | Water-deprived adult rats were used in a conditioned-suppression-of-licking procedure to determine the effect of inhibitory training with a novel stimulus trained in simultaneous compound with a previously established conditioned inhibitor. This procedure constitutes an inhibitory analogue to the excitatory blocking procedure in classical conditioning. The conditioned-inhibition training consisted of either explicitly unpaired CS and US presentations or negative contingency training, in which the likelihood of the US was greater in the absence than in the presence of the CS, but the CS and the US were occasionally paired. To assess conditioned inhibition, a retardation test was used, and comparable retardation was obtained for subjects that were administered the blocking treatment and control subjects given similar conditioned-inhibition training with a compound stimulus in which the nontarget element was not previously established as a conditioned inhibitor. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录！ |
|
