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Perceptual learning transfer in an appetitive Pavlovian task

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posted on 2019-02-28, 10:29 authored by Antonio A. Artigas, Jose Prados
In two experiments, rats were given intermixed or blocked preexposure to two similar compound stimuli, AX and BX. Following preexposure, conditioning trials took place in which AX (Experiment 1) or a novel compound stimulus NX (Experiment 2) was paired with a food-unconditioned stimulus in an appetitive Pavlovian preparation. Animals that were given alternated preexposure showed lower generalization from AX to BX (Experiment 1) and from NX to a new compound, ZX (Experiment 2), than animals that were given blocked preexposure, a perceptual learning and a perceptual learning transfer effect, respectively.

Funding

This work was supported by a grant (Ref: PSI2011-26850) from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciĆ³n to the authors.

History

Citation

Learning & Behavior, 2017, 45 (2), pp. 115-123

Author affiliation

/Organisation/COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES/Biological Sciences/Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Published in

Learning & Behavior

Publisher

Springer (part of Springer Nature), Psychonomic Society

eissn

1543-4508

Copyright date

2016

Available date

2019-02-28

Publisher version

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13420-016-0245-y

Language

en