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M Jitsumori1, A A Wright, R G Cook

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Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes
|April 1, 1988
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Monkeys

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Animal behavior

Background:

  • Serial-probe-recognition (SPR) performance in monkeys can decline over time.
  • Repetitive stimulus presentation across sessions can lead to proactive interference (PI).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the causes of performance deterioration in SPR tasks.
  • To explore strategies monkeys use to overcome proactive interference.
  • To enhance SPR performance through stimulus novelty and strategy training.

Main Methods:

  • Monkeys were trained on an SPR task with trial-unique items within sessions but repeated between sessions.
  • Novel stimuli were introduced across days to counteract PI (Experiment 1).
  • Probe-only trials assessed response strategies (Experiment 2).
  • Mixed familiar and novel trials trained relational strategies (Experiment 3).

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Main Results:

  • Performance deteriorated due to proactive interference from repeated stimuli.
  • Introducing novel stimuli daily improved performance from 63% to 82% correct.
  • Monkeys employed familiar/novel and relational strategies to enhance performance.
  • Intermixing familiar and novel trials improved performance on both trial types.

Conclusions:

  • Proactive interference significantly impacts SPR performance in monkeys.
  • Strategic use of novel stimuli and relational learning can mitigate PI.
  • Findings have implications for designing memory experiments with repeating stimuli.