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Testing response generation rules.

R R Miller¹, T R Schachtman, L D Matzel

¹Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders, Bethesda, MD.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes

|October 1, 1988

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Extinction of other cues during conditioning increases or decreases target responding, supporting the comparator hypothesis. However, enhancing other cues does not alter target responding, challenging its broad application.

Area of Science:

Behavioral neuroscience
Learning and memory

Background:

The comparator hypothesis explains conditioned response generation.
Robbins (1988) presented data challenging this hypothesis.

Purpose of the Study:

Re-evaluate Robbins's (1988) experiments as a test of the comparator hypothesis.
Review evidence regarding cue extinction and enhancement effects on conditioned responding.

Main Methods:

Analysis of existing experimental data on conditioned responding.
Review of studies testing comparator hypothesis predictions.

Main Results:

Extinction of concurrently trained cues increases excitatory and decreases inhibitory responding to the target conditioned stimulus (CS).
Enhancing the associative value of concurrently trained cues shows minimal impact on target CS responding.

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Conclusions:

Evidence supports cue extinction's influence on conditioned responding, aligning with the comparator hypothesis.
Limited evidence exists for associative enhancement of concurrent cues affecting target responding, posing a challenge to the hypothesis's scope.