TY - JOUR
T1 - Transfer of inhibition after serial feature negative discrimination training
AU - Lamarre, Jennifer
AU - Holland, Peter C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. We thank Mauricio Suarez and James Petrick for their technical assistance. Experiments 1 and 2 were part of a dissertation submitted in 1984 by JL to the University of Pittsburgh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the doctoral degree. We thank the committee members, H. Fowler, R. Garris, J. Holland, and M. Moskowitz, for their advice. Requests for reprints should be addressed to Peter Holland, Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706.
PY - 1987/11
Y1 - 1987/11
N2 - Three experiments examined the transfer of inhibition in Pavlovian serial feature negative (A+, X→ A-) discriminations in a conditioned suppression situation with rat subjects. Consistent with our previous report (P. C. Holland & J. Lamarre, Learning and Motivation, 15, 219-243), the feature (X) showed little or no ability to inhibit suppression to another conditioned excitor (B) that had been consistently reinforced. Nor was substantial transfer observed to excitors that had been partially reinforced, or conditioned, extinguished, and then reconditioned. However, X readily inhibited suppression to an excitor that had been trained within another serial feature negative discrimination (B+, Y → B-). These latter data are difficult to reconcile with our previous proposal that inhibitors established with serial procedures act on particular conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus associations. We suggest that serial feature negative discriminations endow both the feature (X) and the excitor (A) with special properties.
AB - Three experiments examined the transfer of inhibition in Pavlovian serial feature negative (A+, X→ A-) discriminations in a conditioned suppression situation with rat subjects. Consistent with our previous report (P. C. Holland & J. Lamarre, Learning and Motivation, 15, 219-243), the feature (X) showed little or no ability to inhibit suppression to another conditioned excitor (B) that had been consistently reinforced. Nor was substantial transfer observed to excitors that had been partially reinforced, or conditioned, extinguished, and then reconditioned. However, X readily inhibited suppression to an excitor that had been trained within another serial feature negative discrimination (B+, Y → B-). These latter data are difficult to reconcile with our previous proposal that inhibitors established with serial procedures act on particular conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus associations. We suggest that serial feature negative discriminations endow both the feature (X) and the excitor (A) with special properties.
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U2 - 10.1016/0023-9690(87)90001-4
DO - 10.1016/0023-9690(87)90001-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000849938
SN - 0023-9690
VL - 18
SP - 319
EP - 342
JO - Learning and Motivation
JF - Learning and Motivation
IS - 4
ER -