The latter learning affects the rats’ expectation of reinforcement as an outcome of the trial, which influences their ability to detect retrospectively that an opportunity for reinforcement was missed, and, in turn, drives extinction. Five experiments with rats explored SNC in the Pavlovian autoshaping procedure in which a retractable lever is paired with the delivery of food pellets. . Taken together, these results demonstrate that preexposure can elevate overall similarity sorting and provide insight into the conditions under which the effect will occur. APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications. PLUS: Download citation style files for your favorite reference manager. Animal Learning and Behavior Animal Cognition Journal of Comparative Psychology Learning and Motivation Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Behavioural Processes. Andrew R. Delamater Three experiments sought to explore whether this effect extends to outcomes and was investigated using the food allergist paradigm in human participants. Then we used sensory preconditioning (Experiment 2) and conditioned flavor preference (Experiment 3) procedures to assess the strength of the X-A within-compound association resulting from those preexposure schedules. This implies that rats are indifferent to the probability of reinforcement per trial. In preparing a Brief Communication, authors should use 12-point Times Roman type and 1-inch margins. The accuracy of these predictions was confirmed through analysis of archival data from female and male rats. Experiment 3 established that the preexposure effect is also influenced by the spatial separateness of the stimulus dimensions-preexposure significantly elevated overall similarity sorting when the dimensions were integrated into a coherent object but not when they were spatially separated. We investigated, using orofacial reactivity assessment, whether nonflavor context cues can elicit conditioned aversive reactions, and also whether context cues interfere, through blocking, with the reduction in taste palatability during taste aversion conditioning. Kansas State University, Matthew Lattal In light of changing patterns of scientific knowledge dissemination, APA requires authors to provide information on prior dissemination of the data and narrative interpretations of the data/research appearing in the manuscript (e.g., if some or all were presented at a conference or meeting, posted on a listserv, shared on a website, including academic social networks like ResearchGate, etc.). ISSN 2329-8456; Visibility; Title: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Identifying Strategy Use in Category Learning Tasks: A Case for More Diagnostic Data and Models Chris Donkin, Ben R. Newell, Mike Kalish, ... Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. L reduced responding when tested with a CS that had been reinforced at a high rate, but had less or even no inhibitory effect when tested with a CS that had been reinforced at a low rate. They also expand on prior findings suggesting that actions transfer across contexts, and that habits do not. by the We discuss the implications of these changes in the properties of S1 for associative theories of conditioning and, in particular, for the proposal that the rules that govern changes in the associability of a stimulus differ from those governing changes in its effective salience. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) Footnotes that identify the authors should be typed on a separate page. In contrast, the sequential choice model (SCM) proposes that choices are driven by parallel expression of the mechanisms that control action in sequential encounters, without comparative deliberation at choice time. In this context, we tested the following hypotheses regarding the relation between objective and subjective cue–outcome contingency: (a) The underlying distributions of subjective cue–outcome contingency are Gaussian; (b) The mean distribution of subjective contingency is a linear function of objective cue–outcome contingency; and (c) The variance in the distribution of subjective contingency is constant. At test, participants displayed more learning about these additional control trials relative to the blocked outcomes, thus displaying an outcome blocking effect alongside an outcome facilitation effect. Instead, participants appeared to attribute outcomes to cues with a comparatively uncertain causal status, in an apparent violation of prediction error. 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