Extinction arouses attention to the context in a behavioral suppression method with humans

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-105

  Nelson, James Byron ^a   Lamoureux, Jeffrey A ^b   León, Samuel P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Conditioning; Extinction; Humans; Renewal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879295087     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030759     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bouton, M. E. (1991). Context and retrieval in extinction and in other examples of interference in simple associative learning. In L. Dachowski & C. F. Flaherty (Eds.),Current topics in animal learning: Brain, emotion, and cognition (pp. 25-53). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
2. Bouton, M. E. (1993). Context, time, and memory retrieval in the interference paradigms of Pavlovian learning.Psychological Bulletin, 114, 80-99.doi:10.1037/0033-2909.114.1.80
3. Bouton, M. E. (1997). Signals for whether versus when an event will occur. In M. E. Bouton & M. S. Fanselow (Eds.),Learning, motivation and cognition: The functional behaviorism of Robert C. Bolles (pp. 385-409). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
4. Bouton, M. E., & Nelson, J. B. (1998). The role of context in classical conditioning: Some implications for cognitive behavior therapy. In W. O'Donohue (Ed.),Learning and behavior therapy (pp. 59-84). Need-ham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
5. Callejas-Aguilera, J. E., & Rosas, J. M. (2010). Ambiguity and context processing in human predictive learning.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 36, 482-494.doi:10.1037/a0018527
6. Howell, D. C. (1987).Statistical methods for psychology. Boston, MA: Duxbury Press.
7. Kutlu, M. G., & Schmajuk, N. A. (2012). Solving Pavlov's puzzle: Atten-tional, associative, and flexible configural mechanisms in classical conditioning.Learning & Behavior, 40, 269-291. doi:10.3758/s13420-012-0083-5
8. Larrauri, J. A., & Schmajuk, N. A. (2008). Attentional, associative, and configural mechanisms in extinction.Psychological Review, 115, 640-676.doi:10.1037/0033-295X.115.3.640
9. Mackintosh, N. J. (1975). A theory of attention: Variations in the associa-bility of stimuli with reinforcement.Psychological Review, 82, 276-298.doi:10.1037/h0076778
10. Nelson, J. B. (2002). Context specificity of excitation and inhibition in ambiguous stimuli.Learning and Motivation, 33, 284-310. doi:10.1006/lmot.2001.1112
11. Nelson, J. B., & Bouton, M. E. (1997). The effects of a context switch following serial and simultaneous feature-negative discriminations.Learning and Motivation, 28, 56-84.doi:10.1006/lmot.1997.0946
12. Nelson, J. B., & Bouton, M. E. (2002). Extinction, inhibition, and emotional intelligence. In L. Feldman-Barrett & P. Salovey (Eds.),The wisdom in feeling: Psychological processes in emotional intelligence (pp. 60-85). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
13. Nelson, J. B., & Callejas-Aguillera, J. E. (2007). The role of interference produced by conflicting associations in contextual control.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33, 314-326.doi:10.1037/0097-7403.33.3.314
14. Nelson, J. B., Gregory, P., & Sanjuan, M. C. (2012). The extinction context enables extinction performance after a change in context.Behavioural Processes, 90, 372-377.doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2012.04.001
15. Nelson, J. B., Lombas, S., & León, S. P. (2011). Concurrent extinction does not render appetitive conditioning context.Learning & Behavior, 39, 87-94.doi:10.3758/s13420-011-0023-9
16. Nelson, J. B., & Sanjuan, M. C. (2006). A context-specific latent inhibition effect in a human conditioned suppression task.The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1003-1020.doi:10.1080/17470210500417738
17. Nelson, J. B., & Sanjuan, M. C. (2008). Flattening generalization gradients, context, and perceptual learning.Learning & Behavior, 36, 279-289.doi:10.3758/LB.36.4.279
18. Nelson, J. B., Sanjuan, M. C., Vadillo-Ruiz, S., Pérez, J., & León, S. P. (2011). Experimental renewal in human participants.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37, 58-70.doi: 10.1037/a0020519
19. Pearce, J. M., & Hall, G. (1980). A model for Pavlovian learning: Variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not unconditioned stimuli.Psychological Review, 87, 532-552.doi:10.1037/0033-295X.87.6.532
20. Peck, C. A., & Bouton, M. E. (1990). Context and performance in aversive-to-appetitive and appetitive-to-aversive transfer.Learning and Motivation, 21, 1-31.doi:10.1016/0023-9690(90)90002-6
21. Rescorla, R. A. (2008). Within-subject renewal in sign tracking.The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1793-1802.doi: 10.1080/17470210701790099
22. Rosas, J. M., & Callejas-Aguilera, J. E. (2006). Context switch effects on acquisition and extinction in human predictive learning.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 461-474.doi:10.1037/0278-7393.32.3.461
23. Rosas, J. M., & Callejas-Aguilera, J. E. (2007). Acquisition of a conditioned taste aversion becomes context dependent when it is learned after extinction.The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 9-15.doi:10.1080/17470210600971519
24. Rosas, J. M., Callejas-Aguilera, J. E., Ramos-Alvarez, M. M., & Abad, M. J. F. (2006). Revision of retrieval theory of forgetting: What does make information context-specific?International Journal of Psychology & Psychological Therapy, 6, 147-166.
25. Satterthwaite, F. E. (1946). An approximate distribution of the estimates of variance components.Biometrics Bulletin, 2, 110-114.doi:10.2307/3002019
26. Schmajuk, N. A., Lam, Y. W., & Gray, J. A. (1996). Latent inhibition: A neural network approach.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 321-349.doi:10.1037/0097-7403.22.3.321
27. Wagner, A. R. (1981). SOP: A model of automatic memory processing in animal behavior. In N. E. Spear & R. R. Miller (Eds.),Information processing in animals: Memory mechanisms (pp. 5-47). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
28. Welch, B. L. (1938). The significance of the difference between two means when the population variances are unequal.Biometrika, 34, 29-35.