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Ten rats were deprived of water and trained to lick a tube for saccharin reinforcement. In each of the two sessions that followed, the rats received six contiguous pairings of a 30-second illumination of the houselight and a 0.75 second, 0.10 mA electric shock while licking. No sign of conditioning was observed during the first experimental session, but profound conditioning was observed on the first and subsequent trials of the second conditioning session. No comparable change in the rate of licking was observed in groups of rats that received only presentations of the visual stimulus, only presentations of the electric shock, or random presentation of the visual stimulus and electric shock during the first conditioning session. These data establish that the incubation of conditional suppression is an associative phenomenon.
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Supported by NSERC University Research Fellowship U0262 (WJJ) and a studentship from the Medical Research Council of Canada (JRB).
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Jacobs, W.J., Blackburn, J.R. Incubation of conditional suppression is an associatively-based phenomenon. Pav. J. Biol. Sci. 22, 118–121 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02734665
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02734665