CS-US temporal relations in blocking. Learn Behav 2008 May;36(2):92-103
Date
06/12/2008Pubmed ID
18543710Pubmed Central ID
PMC2587234DOI
10.3758/lb.36.2.92Scopus ID
2-s2.0-46649106964 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 16 CitationsAbstract
In four trace-conditioning experiments with rats, the influence on the blocking of differences between the blocking cue-unconditioned stimulus (US) and the blocked cue-US trace intervals was explored. Experiment 1 demonstrated blocking despite the blocked cue's having a shorter trace interval than the blocking cue in both elemental (Phase 1) and compound (Phase 2) training. In Experiment 2, blocking was attenuated when the blocked cue had a longer trace interval than did the blocking cue in both elemental and compound training. In Experiments 3 and 4, the trace intervals of the two cues during compound training were matched (i.e., unlike in Experiments 1 and 2, neither had temporal priority). Blocking was attenuated when the blocking cue trace interval in the elemental phase was shorter (Experiment 3) or longer (Experiment 4) than the compound cue trace during compound training. The findings indicate that subjects encode interstimulus intervals, and they further suggest that cue competition is greatest when the competing cues have the same temporal information as the US.
Author List
Amundson JC, Miller RRAuthor
Jeffrey C. Amundson PhD Assistant Professor in the Medical School Regional Campus Central Wisconsin department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Analysis of VarianceAnimals
Association Learning
Conditioning, Classical
Cues
Female
Male
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Reward
Time Perception
