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Gomez-Sancho, Luis E.; Fernandez-Serra, Francisco; Arias, M. Francisca – Learning and Motivation, 2013
Summation is the usual result in composition procedures with excitatory stimuli. However, summation is difficult to obtain in autoshaping with pigeons. The problems with this preparation have been related to the stimuli used: combinations of intramodal conditioned stimuli (CSs). During the perceptual processing of this type of stimuli, some mutual…
Descriptors: Animals, Stimuli, Interference (Learning), Conditioning
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Thomas, Brian L.; Cutler, Marlo; Novak, Cheryl – Learning and Motivation, 2012
Two studies using an ABA design examined the Extinction and renewal of conditioned barpress suppression. Following lights-off and foot shock pairings in Context A, rats were placed in Context B and were given either a standard counterconditioning procedure where the lights-off CS was paired with a novel food US delivered freely or a modified…
Descriptors: Fear, Cognitive Development, Inhibition, Animals
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Grant, Douglas S. – Learning and Motivation, 2011
Experiments 1 and 2 involved independent groups that received primary reinforcement after a correct match with a probability of 1.0, 0.50 or 0.25. Correct matches that did not produce primary reinforcement produced a conditioned reinforcer. Both experiments revealed little evidence that acquisition or retention was adversely affected by use of…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Probability, Laboratory Experiments, Conditioning
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Gil, Marta; Symonds, Michelle; Hall, Geoffrey; de Brugada, Isabel – Learning and Motivation, 2011
In three experiments, rats received exposure to a sucrose solution followed by conditioning with a neutral flavor as the conditioned stimulus (CS) and sucrose as the unconditioned stimulus (US). In Experiments 1 and 2, some rats were given both the preexposure and the conditioning phases in a highly familiar context (the homecage), whereas other…
Descriptors: Cues, Context Effect, Conditioning, Sensory Experience
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Keller, Matthew R.; Brown, Michael F. – Learning and Motivation, 2011
Pairs of rats foraged in trials either together or separately in an open field apparatus for pellets hidden in discreet locations in a 5 x 5 matrix. Trial duration was either 1 or 4 min. The tendency to choose locations that had earlier been visited by another rat was examined by comparing the choices made in the presence and absence of the other…
Descriptors: Animals, Memory, Spatial Ability, Comparative Analysis
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Costa, Daniel S. J.; Boakes, Robert A. – Learning and Motivation, 2009
Prior experience of unsignaled food can interfere with subsequent acquisition by birds of autoshaped key-pecking at a signal light. This has been understood to indicate that unsignaled food results in context conditioning, which blocks subsequent learning about the keylight-food relationship. In the present experiment with rats lever insertion as…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Conditioning, Animals, Food
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Vervliet, Bram; Iberico, Carlos; Vervoort, Ellen; Baeyens, Frank – Learning and Motivation, 2011
Generalization gradients have been investigated widely in animal conditioning experiments, but much less so in human predictive learning tasks. Here, we apply the experimental design of a recent study on conditioned fear generalization in humans (Lissek et al., 2008) to a predictive learning task, and examine the effects of a number of relevant…
Descriptors: Animals, Research Design, Testing, Conditioning
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Williams, Douglas A.; Lussier, April L. – Learning and Motivation, 2011
Two experiments examined temporally based changes in the conditioned magazine-entries of rats when a target food pellet arrived at a fixed time before the termination of a conditioned stimulus. Both experiments found that increasing the rate of intertrial pellets systematically interfered with the rate of acquisition. When intertrial pellets were…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Cognitive Development, Animals, Conditioning
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Stagner, Jessica P.; Laude, Jennifer R.; Zentall, Thomas R. – Learning and Motivation, 2011
When pigeons are given a choice between two alternatives, one leading to a stimulus 20% of the time that always signals reinforcement (S+) or another stimulus 80% of the time that signals no reinforcement (S-), and the other alternative leading to one of two stimuli each signaling reinforcement 50% of the time, they show a strong preference for…
Descriptors: Animals, Reinforcement, Probability, Stimuli
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De la Casa, L. G.; Marquez, R.; Lubow, R. E. – Learning and Motivation, 2009
A long delay inserted between conditioning and test phases of a 3-stage Latent Inhibition (LI) procedure produces differential effects on LI depending on the delay context. Thus, enhanced LI has been obtained when the delay is spent in a context that is different from the remaining experimental contexts, but not when it is the same. The present…
Descriptors: Intervals, Conditioning, Inhibition, Retention (Psychology)
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Diaz, Estrella; De la Casa, L. G. – Learning and Motivation, 2011
This paper presents evidence of extinction, spontaneous recovery and renewal in a conditioned preferences paradigm based on taste-taste associations. More specifically, in three experiments rats exposed to a simultaneous compound of citric acid-saccharin solution showed a preference for the citric solution when the preference was measured with a…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Models, Animals, Laboratory Experiments
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Masaki, Takahisa; Nakajima, Sadahiko – Learning and Motivation, 2010
Swimming endows rats with an aversion to a taste solution consumed before swimming. The present study explored whether the experience of swimming before or after the taste-swimming trials interferes with swimming-based taste aversion learning. Experiment 1 demonstrated that a single preexposure to 20 min of swimming was as effective as four or…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Animals, Conditioning, Retention (Psychology)
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Grant, Douglas S. – Learning and Motivation, 2009
To test the hypothesis that pigeons will only code the more salient sample when samples differ markedly in salience, pigeons were trained with samples consisting of a 2-s presentation of food (highly salient sample) and an 8-s presentation of keylight (less salient sample). During retention testing, pigeons tended to respond at longer delays as if…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Animals, Animal Behavior, Experiments
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Williams, Douglas A.; Chubala, Chrissy M.; Mather, Amber A.; Johns, Kenneth W. – Learning and Motivation, 2009
Appetitive contextual excitation supported by intertrial unconditioned stimuli was more easily overcome by timed conditioned responding in rats using quiet (Experiment 1) rather than noisy (Experiment 2) food pellet deliveries. Head-entry responding in acquisition peaked above the contextual baseline when pellet delivery occurred 10, 30, 60, or 90…
Descriptors: Cues, Intervals, Reaction Time, Food
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Gonzalez, Felisa; Garcia-Burgos, David; de Brugada, Isabel; Gil, Marta – Learning and Motivation, 2010
In two experiments, thirsty rats consumed a compound of sucrose and a non-preferred flavor. In Experiment 1, a conditioned preference was observed in the experimental group when animals were tested both thirsty and hungry, but not when they were tested just thirsty. Animals in the control group, which experienced the flavor and the sucrose…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Animals, Evaluation Methods
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