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- Title
Contextual control of conditioning is not affected by extinction in a behavioral task with humans.
- Authors
Nelson, James; Lamoureux, Jeffrey
- Abstract
The Attentional Theory of Context Processing (ATCP) states that extinction will arouse attention to contexts resulting in learning becoming contextually controlled. Participants learned to suppress responding to colored sensors in a video-game task where contexts were provided by different gameplay backgrounds. Four experiments assessed the contextual control of simple excitatory learning acquired to a test stimulus (T) after (Exp. 1) or during (Exp. 2-4) extinction of another stimulus (X). Experiment 1 produced no evidence of contextual control of T, though renewal to X was present both at the time T was trained and tested. In Experiment 2 no contextual control of T was evident when X underwent extensive conditioning and extinction. In Experiment 3 no contextual control of T was evident after extensive conditioning and extinction of X, and renewal to X was present. In Experiment 4 contextual control was evident to T, but it neither depended upon nor was enhanced by extinction of X. The results presented here appear to limit the generality of ATCP.
- Subjects
CONTEXTUAL learning; CONDITIONED response; EXTINCTION (Psychology); STIMULUS &; response (Psychology); ASSOCIATIVE learning; ATTENTION
- Publication
Learning & Behavior, 2015, Vol 43, Issue 2, p163
- ISSN
1543-4494
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13420-015-0170-5