TY - JOUR
T1 - Transfer after serial feature positive discrimination training
AU - Holland, Peter C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. 1 thank Wendy Pekich, James Petrick, and Mauricio Suarez for their technical assistance, and an unidentified reviewer for helpful comments on an earlier version of this article. Correspondence, including requests for reprints. should be addressed to Peter Holland. who is now at the Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706.
PY - 1986/8
Y1 - 1986/8
N2 - Three experiments with rat subjects examined the transfer of stimulus control in Pavlovian appetitive serial feature-positive discriminations of the form X→A +, A -. In those discriminations, X acquired the ability to modulate or set the occasion for conditioned responses (CRs) that were evoked by A, such that A evoked CRs only when it was preceded by X. The occasion-setting power of X was specific to A: X did not modulate CRs evoked by other excitatory conditioned stimuli (CSs) that had been trained in various manners with the same unconditioned stimulus as was used in the X→A+, A- discrimination. These data are consistent with earlier claims that, in this conditioning preparation, serial feature-positive discrimination training endows X with the ability to signal the occurrence of an upcoming relation between a specific CS and the US.
AB - Three experiments with rat subjects examined the transfer of stimulus control in Pavlovian appetitive serial feature-positive discriminations of the form X→A +, A -. In those discriminations, X acquired the ability to modulate or set the occasion for conditioned responses (CRs) that were evoked by A, such that A evoked CRs only when it was preceded by X. The occasion-setting power of X was specific to A: X did not modulate CRs evoked by other excitatory conditioned stimuli (CSs) that had been trained in various manners with the same unconditioned stimulus as was used in the X→A+, A- discrimination. These data are consistent with earlier claims that, in this conditioning preparation, serial feature-positive discrimination training endows X with the ability to signal the occurrence of an upcoming relation between a specific CS and the US.
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U2 - 10.1016/0023-9690(86)90013-5
DO - 10.1016/0023-9690(86)90013-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249039342
SN - 0023-9690
VL - 17
SP - 243
EP - 268
JO - Learning and Motivation
JF - Learning and Motivation
IS - 3
ER -