Attenuation of the Renewal Effect by Extinction in Multiple Contexts

Chelonis, John J.; Calton, Jeffrey L.; Hart, Julie A.; Schachtman, Todd R.

doi:10.1006/lmot.1998.1022

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“…In accordance with the present study, other researchers have also reported no attenuation of ABA renewal due to extinction in multiple contexts (e.g., Betancourt et al, 2008;Bouton et al, 2006a;Neumann et al, 2007). However, there have also been a number of demonstrations of the effectiveness of extinction in multiple contexts in ABA renewal (e.g., Chelonis et al, 1999;Neumann, 2006). Some factors might explain these differences.…”

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“…The effectiveness of conducting extinction in multiple contexts has been examined in a variety of preparations and species. It has been shown to attenuate renewal in rats using fear conditioning (Gunther, Denniston, & Miller, 1998;Thomas, Vurbic, & Novak, 2009; and conditioned taste aversion (Chelonis, Calton, Hart, & Schachtman, 1999). With human subjects, it has been examined in predictive learning (Neumann, 2006;Glautier, Elgueta, & Nelson, 2013), fear of spiders (Vansteenwegen et al, 2007), and fear conditioning (Bandarian Balooch & Neumann, 2011).…”

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Extinction in multiple contexts: Effects on the rate of extinction and the strength of response recovery

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In two human predictive-learning experiments, we investigated the effects of extinction in multiple contexts on the rate of extinction and the strength of response recovery. In each experiment, participants initially received acquisition training with a target cue in one context, followed by extinction either in a different context (extinction in a single context) or in three different contexts (extinction in multiple contexts). The results of both experiments showed that conducting extinction in multiple contexts led to higher levels of responding during extinction than did extinction in a single context. Additionally, Experiment 2 showed that extinction in multiple contexts prevented ABC renewal but had no detectable impact on ABA renewal. Our results are discussed within the framework of contemporary learning theories of contextual control and extinction.

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“…There is some debate as to whether renewal may be mitigated by overtraining of extinction 36,37 or extinction in multiple contexts. [38][39][40][41] Spontaneous recovery. Spontaneous recovery refers to a reappearance of extinguished CRs with the passage of time following extinction training in the absence of any further explicit training (Figure 1c).…”

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Mechanisms of fear extinction

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Excessive fear and anxiety are hallmarks of a variety of disabling anxiety disorders that affect millions of people throughout the world. Hence, a greater understanding of the brain mechanisms involved in the inhibition of fear and anxiety is attracting increasing interest in the research community. In the laboratory, fear inhibition most often is studied through a procedure in which a previously fear conditioned organism is exposed to a fear-eliciting cue in the absence of any aversive event. This procedure results in a decline in conditioned fear responses that is attributed to a process called fear extinction. Extensive empirical work by behavioral psychologists has revealed basic behavioral characteristics of extinction, and theoretical accounts have emphasized extinction as a form of inhibitory learning as opposed to an erasure of acquired fear. Guided by this work, neuroscientists have begun to dissect the neural mechanisms involved, including the regions in which extinction-related plasticity occurs and the cellular and molecular processes that are engaged. The present paper will cover behavioral, theoretical and neurobiological work, and will conclude with a discussion of clinical implications. Molecular Psychiatry (2007) 12, 120-150.

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“…These approaches include, but are not limited to, extinction in multiple contexts (Gunther et al 1998;Chelonis et al 1999), augmentation of prediction error during extinction learning and/or extinction of multiple CSs in compound (e.g., Rescorla 2006b; Leung and Westbrook 2008;Urcelay et al 2009), and extinction shortly after conditioning (Myers et al 2006). However, in many of these cases, augmentation of extinction is parameter dependent.…”

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Effects of recent exposure to a conditioned stimulus on extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning

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In six experiments we studied the effects of a single re-exposure to a conditioned stimulus (CS; "retrieval trial") prior to extinction training (extinction-reconsolidation boundary) on the development of and recovery from fear extinction. A single retrieval trial prior to extinction training significantly augmented the renewal and reinstatement of extinguished responding. Augmentation of recovery was not observed if the retrieval and extinction training occurred in different contexts. These results contrast with those reported in earlier papers by Monfils and coworkers in rats and by Schiller and coworkers in humans. We suggest that these contrasting results could depend on the contrasting influences of either: (1) occasion-setting contextual associations vs. direct context-CS associations formed as a consequence of the retrieval trial or (2) discrimination vs. generalization between the circumstances of conditioning and extinction.

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Attenuation of the Renewal Effect by Extinction in Multiple Contexts

Cited by 105 publications

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Extinction in multiple contexts: Effects on the rate of extinction and the strength of response recovery

Extinction in multiple contexts: Effects on the rate of extinction and the strength of response recovery

Mechanisms of fear extinction

Effects of recent exposure to a conditioned stimulus on extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning

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