期刊
COMPARATIVE COGNITION & BEHAVIOR REVIEWS
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 1-22出版社
COMPARATIVE COGNITION SOC
DOI: 10.3819/ccbr.2010.50001
关键词
Associative learning; conditioning; information theory; time
资金
- NIH [R01MH068073, R01MH077027, K99MH083943]
- NARSAD
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH068073] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
In a basic associative learning paradigm, learning is said to have occurred when the conditioned stimulus evokes an anticipatory response. This learning is widely believed to depend on the contiguous presentation of conditioned and unconditioned stimulus. However, what it means to be contiguous has not been rigorously defined. Here we examine the empirical bases for these beliefs and suggest an alternative view based on the hypothesis that learning about the temporal relationships between events determines the speed of emergence, vigor and form of conditioned behavior. This temporal learning occurs very rapidly and prior to the appearance of the anticipatory response. The temporal relations are learned even when no anticipatory response is evoked. The speed with which an anticipatory response emerges is proportional to the informativeness of the predictive cue (CS) regarding the rate of occurrence of the predicted event (US). This analysis gives an account of what we mean by temporal pairing and is in accord with the data on speed of acquisition and basic findings in the cue competition literature. In this account, learning depends on perceiving and encoding temporal regularities rather than stimulus contiguities.
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