期刊
BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
卷 90, 期 1, 页码 9-19出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.03.006
关键词
Magazine approach; Flavor preference learning; Contextual occasion setting; Extinction; Prediction errors; Rescorla-Wagner model
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health [065947]
- Professional Staff Congress City University of New York [62413-00 40, 63606-00 41]
This paper reviews a variety of studies designed to examine the effects of extinction upon control by specific stimulus-outcome (S-O) associations in Pavlovian conditioning. Studies conducted with rats in a magazine approach conditioning paradigm have shown that control by specific S-O associations is normally unaffected by extinction treatments, although other aspects of conditioned responding seem affected in a more enduring way. However, recent work suggests that extinction can undermine control by such associations if it is administered after the conditioned stimulus is weakly encoded. The results from these studies suggest that it may be important to consider multiple response systems in assessing the impact of extinction. Studies conducted with the flavor preference learning paradigm in rats also show that specific S-O associations can be undermined by procedures that involve presenting a flavor cue in the absence of its associated nutrient. These findings provide no support for the view that flavor preference learning necessarily entails some unique learning process that differs from more conventional processes. As in other situations, some of these effects likely involve a masking process, but the extent to which masking or true associative weakening occurs in extinction more generally is a topic that is not well understood. Finally, we present some data to suggest that extinction also involves conditional occasion-setting control by contextual cues. Special procedures are recommended in assessing such learning when the goal is to distinguish this form of learning from other more conventional mechanisms of extinction. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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