Effect of Previous Perceptual Experience of Specific Three-Dimensional Objects on Later Visual Discrimination Behavior in Rats

Kawachi, Juro

doi:10.4992/psycholres1954.7.20

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“…All have begun stimulus exposure when the rats were immature; most often, exposure was started at the age of weaning (about 21 days), but in some experiments (e.g., Gibson & Walk, 1956) the stimuli have been present from birththe eyes of baby rats open at about 10 days. In the experiment by Kawachi (1965), exposure did not begin until 30 days, and in that by Fergus (1956), until 41 days of age. Discrimination training has usually been started at about 90 days, but in one experiment by Walk et al (1958) it was delayed until the subjects were 120 days old.…”

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Exposure learning in animals.

Hall¹

1980

Psychological Bulletin

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A review is presented of experimental studies (using animal subjects) that investigated the effects of prior exposure to a pair of stimuli on subsequent visual discrimination learning. The bulk of these experiments used young rats as the subjects, with stimulus exposure taking place in the home cage over a long period of time. When such procedures produce transfer to later learning, it is usually positive. Also reviewed are related experiments that differ in their procedural details. (In some, the subjects are animals other than rats, the exposure occurs in environments other than the home cage, etc.) In most of these studies, later learning is found to be retarded. An attempt is made to isolate the critical feature or features of an exposure-learning experiment that determines whether transfer will be positive or negative, and possible theoretical interpretations of the empirical generalizations that emerge are also considered.

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Section: Timing and Duration Of The Exposure Periodmentioning

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Exposure learning in animals.

Hall¹

1980

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate the effect of early visual form exposure on subsequent discrimination learning (Baird & Becknell, 1962;Bennett, Anton, & Levitt, 1971;Cool, 1967;Fergus, 1956Fergus, , 1958aFergus, , 1958bGibson & Walk, 1956;Gibson, Walk, & Tighe, 1959;Kawachi, 1965;Kerpelman, 1965;Libaw, 1961;McCall & Lester, 1969;. However, no attempt has been made to investigate the effect of particular levels of preexposure pattern difficulty on subsequent learning.…”

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Relationship between level of visual pattern difficulty during rearing and subsequent discrimination in rats.

Oswalt

1972

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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“…The experimental group performed much better than the controls. Subsequent work has confirmed that preexposure can facilitate discrimination learning (see T. L. Bennett & Ellis, 1968;Fergus, 1956;Kawachi, 1965). However, other experiments using similar procedures have obtained different results (e.g., Chantrey, 1972;E.…”

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Effects of similarity and experience on discrimination learning: A nonassociative connectionist model of perceptual learning.

Saksida

1999

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

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This article describes a novel connectionist model of perceptual learning (PL) that provides a mechanism for nonassociative differentiation (J. J. Gibson & E. J. Gibson, 1955). The model begins with the assumption that 2 processes--1 that decreases associability and 1 that increases discriminability--operate during preexposure (S. Channell & G. Hall, 1981). In contrast to other models (e.g., I. P. L. McLaren, H. Kaye, & N. J. Mackintosh, 1989), in the current model the mechanisms for these processes are compatible with a configural model of associative learning. A set of simulations demonstrates that the present model can account for critical PL phenomena such as exposure learning and effects of similarity on discrimination. It is also shown that the model can explain the paradoxical result that preexposure to stimuli can either facilitate or impair subsequent discrimination learning. Predictions made by the model are discussed in relation to extant theories of PL.

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Effect of Previous Perceptual Experience of Specific Three-Dimensional Objects on Later Visual Discrimination Behavior in Rats

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Exposure learning in animals.

Exposure learning in animals.

Relationship between level of visual pattern difficulty during rearing and subsequent discrimination in rats.

Effects of similarity and experience on discrimination learning: A nonassociative connectionist model of perceptual learning.

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