Discrimination reversal facilitates contextual conditioning in rats’ appetitive conditioning

  1. Jose A. Alcalá 1
  2. Gabriel González 1
  3. José E. Callejas-Aguilera 1
  4. Juan M. Rosas 1
  5. Aristizabal Cuellar, Jose Alejandro
  1. 1 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0122p5f64

  2. 2 Konrad Lorenz University Foundation
Revista:
Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

ISSN: 1576-8597

Año de publicación: 2018

Volumen: 39

Número: 1

Páginas: 64-87

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.2478/PSICOLJ-2018-0004 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

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Two experiments were conducted with the goal of exploring the effect of experiencing associative interference upon concurrent learning about conditioned stimuli and contexts in rats’ appetitive conditioning. During the first training phase, two groups of rats received a conditioned stimulus (CS1) followed by food, whereas another conditioned stimulus (CS2) was presented alone. During a second training phase, discrimination was reversed in group R, while it remained the same in group D. A new conditioned stimulus (CS3) was concurrently trained followed by food during this second Phase (Experiment 1). Reversal discrimination did not facilitate concurrent conditioning of the new stimulus, but there was a trend towards facilitation of contextual conditioning, measured by magazine entries in the absence of stimuli, that was confirmed in Experiment 2. These results suggest that the interference treatment may facilitate context conditioning under circumstances and with boundaries that are yet to be established.

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Authors note: The Research presented here was financially supported by Grants PSI2010-15215 and PSI2014-52263-C2-1-P from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Competitiveness, by Grant R6/6/2014 of the Research Support Plan of the Universidad de Jaén under the sponsorship of Caja Rural de Jaén, and by the Centre of Animal Production and Experimentation of the Universidad de Jaén. Participation of J. A. Alcalá was funded by Grant FPU13/03761 from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport from Spain.

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