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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIORAL PROCESSES
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 324-335Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.34.3.324
Keywords
associatively-activated representations; mediated learning; backward conditioning; simultaneous conditioning
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH065879, MH65879, R01 MH065879-05] Funding Source: Medline
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Considerable evidence indicates that associations may be formed between two events even when one or both of them is absent at the time of learning. Previously, some researchers asserted that excitatory associations are formed when associatively activated representations for two events are paired, whereas others claimed that inhibitory associations are formed. In three experiments, the authors investigated the nature of tone-sucrose learning when associatively activated representations of those events were paired in the absence of either of the events themselves. Experiment I found substantial excitatory learning when the tone surrogate preceded the sucrose surrogate in training. Experiment 2 evaluated other accounts for the results of Experiment 1, and Experiment 3 found evidence for inhibitory tone-sucrose learning when the tone and sucrose surrogates were presented in simultaneous or backward order. The results indicated that the nature of representation-mediated learning is influenced by some of the same variables as more standard associative learning.
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