Abstract
Hungry rats were used in a classical conditioning procedure in which visual stimuli were paired with food. Conditions in which nonreinforced exposure to a nontarget stimulus was followed by exposure to a simultaneous compound nontarget/target stimulus (a blocking procedure) resulted in enhanced latent inhibition to the target relative to exposure to the nontarget, followed by exposure to the target stimulus alone. A third phase of nonreinforced exposure training, in which the target was exposed alone following the compound, reduced levels of latent inhibition relative to results obtained with the blocking procedure. Experiments also suggested that this was not the result of restoration of associability by the omission of an expected presentation of the nontarget stimulus in the final preexposure phase. These results suggest that enhanced latent inhibition is due to summation of a direct-target-no-event association and a second-order association of these elements via target-nontarget and nontarget-no-event association. Exposure to the target after compound exposure extinguished the target-nontarget association and reduced the sources of no-event learning for the target.
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These data were presented at the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour Group Meeting, London, 1996. Thanks are extended to Geof Hall, Tony Dickinson, Celia Heyes, and Chris Mitchell for helpful criticism of this research.
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Reed, P., Petrochilos, P., Upal, N. et al. Extinction of enhanced latent inhibition. Animal Learning & Behavior 25, 283–290 (1997). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03199086
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Keywords
- Conditioned Stimulus
- Target Stimulus
- Latent Inhibition
- Compound Stimulus
- Target Conditioned Stimulus