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Associative interference in Pavlovian conditioning: a function of similarity between the interfering and target associative structures. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2008 Sep;61(9):1340-55

Date

12/17/2008

Pubmed ID

19086301

Pubmed Central ID

PMC2605289

DOI

10.1080/17470210701560310

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-49449093727 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   3 Citations

Abstract

Three lever-press suppression studies were conducted with water-deprived rats to investigate the role of similarity in proactive interference within first-order Pavlovian conditioning. Experiments la and 1b assessed the influence of stimulus complexity in proactive interference. Both experiments found greater interference when the interfering cue and target cue were composed of the same number of elements. Experiment 2 assessed the influence of context similarity in proactive interference and demonstrated that stronger proactive interference occurred when the interfering cue and the target cue were trained in the same context. The results in conjunction with other reports indicate that various types of cue interaction (e.g., interference and competition) are influenced by similarity of the interacting training events.

Author List

Amundson JC, Miller RR

Author

Jeffrey C. Amundson PhD Assistant Professor in the Medical School Regional Campus Central Wisconsin department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Animals
Association
Conditioning, Classical
Cues
Female
Male
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley