Blocking in human place learning: Evidence from virtual navigation

Psychobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 453-461

  Hamilton, Derek A ^a   Sutherland, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION OF CONGENITAL DEFECTS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0033396015     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. ALYAN, S., & MCNAUOHTON, B. L. (1999). Hippocampectomized rats are capable of homing by path integration. Behavioral Neuroscience, 113, 19-31.
2. ASTUR, R. S., BROWN, N., PRICE, E., & SUTHERLAND, R. J. (1998). A characterization of processes involved in human performance in a virtual Morris water task. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 162.
3. ASTUR, R. S, ORTIZ, M. L., & SUTHERLAND, R. J. (1998). A characterization of performance by men and women in a virtual Morris water task: A large and reliable sex difference. Behavioural Brain Research, 93, 185-190.
4. BIEGLER, R., & MORRIS, R. G. M. (1999). Blocking in the spatial domain with arrays of discrete landmarks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 25, 334-351.
5. BURGESS, N., & O'KEEFE, J. (1996). Neural computations underlying the firing of place cells and their role in navigation. Hippocampus, 7, 749-762.
6. GALLISTEL, C. R. (1990). The organization of learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
7. GLENN, M. J., & MUMBY, D. G. (1998). Place memory is intact in rats with perirhinal cortex lesions. Behavioral Neuroscience, 112, 1353-1365.
8. GORDON, W. C. (1989). Learning and memory. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
9. HEBB, D. O. (1949). The organization of behavior. New York: Wiley.
10. HINCHY, J., LOVIBOND, P. F., & TERHORST, K. M. (1995). Blocking in human electrodermal conditioning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 48B, 2-12.
11. KAMIN, L. (1969). Predictability, surprise, attention and conditioning. In B. A. Campbell & R. M. Church (Eds.), Punishment and aversive behavior (pp. 279-296). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
12. KELSEY, J. E., & LANDRY, B. A. (1988). Medial septal lesions disrupt spatial mapping ability in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 102, 289-293.
13. KOLB, B., SUTHERLAND, R. J., & WHISHAW, I. Q. (1983). A comparison of the contributions of the frontal and parietal association cortex to spatial localization in rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, 97, 13-27.
14. MACKINTOSH, N. J. (1975). A theory of attention: Variations in the associability of stimuli with reinforcement. Psychological Review, 82, 276-298.
15. MACKINTOSH, N. J. (1997). Has the wheel turned full circle? Fifty years of learning theory, 1946-1996. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50A, 879-898.
16. MAGUIRE, E. A., BURGESS, N., DONNETT, J. G., FRACKOWIAK, R. S. J., FRITH, C. D., & O'KEEFE, J. (1998). Knowing where and getting there: A human navigation network. Science, 280, 921-924.
17. MAGUIRE, E. A., FRITH, C. D., BURGESS, N., DONNETT, J. G., & O'KEEFE, J. (1998). Knowing where things are: Parahippocampal involvement in encoding object locations in virtual large-scale space. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 61-76.
18. MARTIN, G. M., HARLEY, C. W., SMITH, A. R., HOYLES, E. S., & HYNES, C. A. (1998). Spatial disorientation blocks reliable goal location on a plus-maze but does not prevent goal location in the Morris maze. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 183-193.
19. MARTIN, I., & LEVEY, A. B. (1991). Blocking observed in human eyelid conditioning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 43B, 233-256.
20. MCNAUGHTON, B. L., & MORRIS, R. G. M. (1987). Hippocampal synaptic enhancement and information storage within a distributed memory system. Trends in Neurosciences, 10, 408-415.
21. MORRIS, R. G. M. (1981). Spatial localisation does not require the presence of local cues. Learning & Motivation, 12, 239-260.
22. MORRIS, R. G. M., & FREY, U. (1997). Hippocampal synaptic plasticity: Role in spatial learning or the automatic recording of attended experience? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Series B, 352, 1489-1503.
23. MORRIS, R. G. M., GARRUD, P., RAWLINS, J. N. P., & O'KEEFE, J. (1982). Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal-lesions. Nature, 297, 681-683.
24. MOSER, E. I., KROBERT, K. A., MOSER, M. B., & MORRIS, R. G. M. (1998). Impaired spatial-learning after saturation of long-term potentiation. Science, 281, 2038-2042.
25. NADEL, L. (1991). The hippocampus and space revisited. Hippocampus, 1, 221-229.
26. NADEL, L., & WILLNER, J. (1980). Context and conditioning: A place for space. Physiological Psychology, 8, 218-228.
27. O'KEEFE, J., & NADEL, L. (1978). The hippocampus as a cognitive map. London: Oxford University Press.
28. PEARCE, J. M., & HALL, G. (1980). A model for Pavlovian learning: Variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not of unconditioned stimuli. Psychological Review, 87, 532-552.
29. PRADOS, J., & TROBALON, J. B. (1998). Locating an invisible goal in a water maze requires at least two landmarks. Psychobiology, 26, 42-48.
30. RESCORLA, R., & WAGNER, A. (1972). A theory of Pavlovian conditioning: Variations in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement. In A. H. Black & W. F. Prokasky (Eds.), Classical conditioning II: Current research and theory (pp. 64-99). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
31. RODRIGO, T., CHAMIZO, V. D., MCLAREN, I. P. L., & MACKINTOSH, N. J. (1997). Blocking in the spatial domain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 110-118.
32. RUDY, J. W., & SUTHERLAND, R. J. (1995). Configurai association theory and the hippocampal formation: An appraisal and reconfiguration. Hippocampus, 5, 375-389.
33. SCHENK, F., & MORRIS, R. G. M. (1985). Dissociation between components of spatial memory in rats after recovery from the effects of retrohippocampal lesions. Experimental Brain Research, 58, 11-28.
34. SUTHERLAND, R. J., KOLB, B., & WHISHAW, I. Q. (1982). Spatial mapping: Definitive disruption by hippocampal or frontal cortical damage in the rat. Neuroscience Letters, 31, 271-276.
35. SUTHERLAND, R. J., & RODRIGUEZ, A. J. (1989). The role of the fornix/fimbria and some related subcortical structures in place learning and memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 32, 265-277.
36. SUTHERLAND, R. J., & RUDY, J. W. (1989). Configurai association theory: The role of the hippocampal formation in learning, memory, and amnesia. Psychobiology, 17, 129-144.
37. SUTHERLAND, R. J., WHISHAW, I. Q., & KOLB, B. (1983). A behavioral-analysis of spatial localization following electrolytic, kainite-induced or colchicine-induced damage to the hippocampal formation in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research, 7, 133-153.
38. SUTHERLAND, R. J., WHISHAW, I. Q., & KOLB, B. (1988). Contribution of cingulate cortex to two forms of spatial learning and memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 8, 1863-1872.
39. TOLMAN, E. C. (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review, 55, 189-209.
40. WEISEND, M. P., KLEIN, R. L., HOESING, J. M., ASTUR, R. S., KOERNER, A., MCDONALD, R. J., GEVING, T., PEINADO, J., BIELA, J., MCWHORTER, J., WEEMS, M., SCHLEGELMILCH, J., YEO, R., & SUTHERLAND, R. J. (1995). Morris water task: Which cues define locations? Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 21, 1939.
41. WHISHAW, I. Q., MITTLEMAN, G., BUNCH, S. T., & DUNNETT, S. B. (1987). Impairments in the acquisition, retention and selection of spatial navigation strategies after medial caudate-putamen lesions in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 24, 125-138.
42. WIIG, K. A., & BILKEY, D. K. (1994a). The effects of perirhinal cortical lesions on spatial reference memory in the rat. Behavioural Brain Research, 63, 101-109.
43. WIIG, K. A., & BILKEY, D. K. (1994b). Subtotal perirhinal cortex lesions increase exploratory behavior in the rat without producing deficits in the Morris water maze. Psychobiology, 22, 195-202.