Perceptual learning in an appetitive Pavlovian procedure: Analysis of the effectiveness of the common element

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 247-256

  Mondragón, Esther ^a   Murphy, Robin A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associability; Classical conditioning; Common feature; Perceptual learning; Salience

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; RATS; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77649184346     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Bennett C.H., and Mackintosh N.J. Comparison and contrast as a mechanism of perceptual learning?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 52B (1999) 253-272
2. Blair C.A.J., and Hall G. Perceptual learning in flavor aversion: evidence for learned changes in stimulus effectiveness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 29 (2003) 39-48
3. Chamizo V.D., and Mackintosh N.J. Latent learning and latent inhibition in maze discriminations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 41B (1989) 21-31
4. Dwyer D.M., Bennett C.H., and Mackintosh N.J. Evidence for inhibitory associations between the unique elements of two compound flavours. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 54B (2001) 97-109
5. Dwyer D.M., Hodder K.I., and Honey R.C. Perceptual learning in humans: roles of preexposure schedule, feedback, and discrimination assay. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 57B (2004) 245-259
6. Dwyer D.M., and Mackintosh N.J. Alternating exposure to two compound flavours creates inhibitory associations between their unique features. Animal Learning & Behavior 30 (2002) 201-207
7. Gibson E.J. Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development (1969), Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York
8. Gibson J.J., and Gibson E.J. Perceptual learning-differentiation or enrichment?. Psychological Review 62 (1955) 32-41
9. Gibson E.J., and Walk R.D. The effect of prolonged exposure to visually presented patterns on learning to discriminate them. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 49 (1956) 239-242
10. Goldstone R.L. Perceptual learning. Annual Review of Psychology 49 (1998) 585-612
11. Hall G. Exposure learning in young and adult laboratory rats. Animal Behaviour 27 (1979) 586-591
12. Hall G. Exposure learning in animals. Psychological Bulletin 88 (1980) 535-550
13. Hall G. Perceptual and Associative Learning (1991), Clarendon Press, Oxford
14. Hall G. Learned changes in the sensitivity of stimulus representations: associative and nonassociative mechanisms. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 56B (2003) 45-57
15. Honey R.C. Stimulus generalization as a function of stimulus novelty and familiarity in rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 16 (1990) 178-184
16. Honey R.C., and Bateson P. Stimulus comparison and perceptual learning: further evidence and evaluation from an imprinting procedure. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 49B (1996) 259-269
17. Honey R.C., Bateson P., and Horn G. The role of stimulus comparison in perceptual learning: an investigation with the domestic chick. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 47B (1994) 83-103
18. Honey R.C., and Hall G. Enhanced discriminability and reduced associability following flavor preexposure. Learning and Motivation 20 (1989) 262-277
19. Lavis Y., and Mitchell C. Effects of preexposure on stimulus discrimination: an investigation of the mechanisms responsible for human perceptual learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 59 (2006) 2083-2101
20. Lubow R.E. Latent Inhibition and Conditioned Attention Theory (1989), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
21. Mackintosh N.J. The Psychology of Animal Learning (1974), Academic Press, London
22. Mackintosh N.J. A theory of attention: variations in the associability of stimuli with reinforcement. Psychological Review 82 (1975) 276-298
23. Mackintosh N.J., Kaye H., and Bennett C.H. Perceptual learning in flavour aversion learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 43B (1991) 297-322
24. McLaren I.P.L., Kaye H., and Mackintosh N.J. An associative theory of the representation of stimuli: applications to perceptual learning and latent inhibition. In: Morris R.G.M. (Ed). Parallel Distributed Processing: Implications For Psychology and Neurobiology (1989), Clarendon Press, Oxford 102-130
25. McLaren I.P.L., and Mackintosh N.J. An elemental model of associative learning: I. Latent inhibition and perceptual learning. Animal Learning & Behavior 28 (2000) 211-246
26. Mondragón E., and Hall G. Analysis of the perceptual learning effect in flavour aversion learning: evidence for stimulus differentiation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 55B (2002) 153-169
27. Pearce J.M., and Hall G. A model for Pavlovian learning: variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not of unconditioned stimuli. Psychological Review 87 (1980) 532-552
28. Postman L. Association theory and perceptual learning. Psychological Review 62 (1955) 438-446
29. Prados J., Chamizo V.D., and Mackintosh N.J. Latent inhibition and perceptual learning in a swimming-pool navigation task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Process 25 (1999) 37-44
30. Rescorla R.A. Stimulus generalization: some predictions from a model of Pavlovian conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 2 (1976) 88-96
31. Rescorla R.A., and Wagner A.R. A theory of Pavlovian conditioning: variations in the effectiveness of and non-reinforcement. In: Black A.H., and Prokasy W.F. (Eds). Classical Conditioning II: Current Research and Theory (1972), Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York 64-99
32. Symonds M., and Hall G. Perceptual learning in flavor aversion conditioning: roles of stimulus comparison and latent inhibition of common elements. Learning and Motivation 26 (1995) 203-219
33. Symonds M., and Hall G. Stimulus preexposure, comparison, and changes in the associability of common stimulus features. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 50B (1997) 317-331
34. Trobalon J.B., Sansa J., Chamizo V.D., and Mackintosh N.J. Perceptual learning in maze discriminations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 43B (1991) 389-402
35. Wagner A.R. SOP: a model of automatic memory processing in animal behavior. In: Spear N.E., and Miller R.R. (Eds). Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms (1981), Erlbaum, Hillsdale 95-128