Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression

Robinson, Jasper, Whitt, Emma and Jones, Peter M. (2017) Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 43 (2). pp. 159-170. ISSN 2329-8464

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Abstract

We report that stimulus novelty/familiarity is able to modulate stimulus generalization and discuss the theoretical implications of novelty/familiarity coding. Rats in Skinner boxes received clicker → shock pairings before generalization testing to a tone. Before clicker training, different groups of rats received preexposure treatments designed to systematically modulate the clicker and the tone's novelty and familiarity. Rats whose preexposure matched novelty/familiarity (i.e., either both or neither clicker and tone were pre-exposed) showed enhanced suppression to the tone relative to rats whose preexposure mixed novelty/familiarity (i.e., only clicker or tone was pre-exposed). This was not the result of sensory preconditioning to clicker and tone.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/854045
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Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Psychology
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000134
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 17 Jan 2017 10:51
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 18:40
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/39901

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