Increased generalization in a peak procedure after delayed reinforcement

Buriticá, Jonathan; Alcalá, Emmanuel

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2019.103978

Cited by 7 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 26 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…First, there are time-accumulation models (e.g., Gallistel & Gibbon, 2000; Gibbon & Balsam, 1981), in which events are accumulated in a period of times (i.e., rates). Second, there are trial-based models (e.g., Rescorla & Wagner, 1972), which do not explicitly code the duration of events; this appears problematic given the often-reported relevance of temporal information as a learning factor in both humans and animals (e.g., Buriticá & Alcalá, 2019; Nasser & Delamater, 2016). However, a number of attempts to integrate timing into the classic trial-based models have been suggested (e.g., Delamater et al, 2014; Donahoe et al, 1993; Gershman, 2015; Ghirlanda et al, 2020; Luzardo et al, 2017).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Benefiting from trial spacing without the cost of prolonged training: Frequency, not duration, of trials with absent stimuli enhances perceived contingency.

Castiello¹,

Miller²,

Witnauer³

et al. 2022

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The statistical relation between two events influences the perception of how one event relates to the presence or absence of another. Interestingly, the simultaneous absence of both events, just like their mutual occurrence, is relevant for describing their contingency. In three experiments, we explored the relevance of coabsent events by varying the duration and frequency of trials without stimuli. We used a rapid trial streaming procedure and found that the perceived association between events is enhanced with increasing frequency of coabsent events, unlike the duration of coabsent events, which had little effect. These findings suggest ways in which the benefits of trial spacing, during which both events are absent, could be obtained without increasing total training time. Centrally, this can be done by frequent repeating of shortened coabsent events, each marked by a trial contextual cue. We discuss four potential accounts of how coabsent experience might be processed contributing to this effect: (a) contingency sensitivity, (b) testing effect, (c) reduced associative interference by the context, and (d) reduced encoding interference.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Benefiting from trial spacing without the cost of prolonged training: Frequency, not duration, of trials with absent stimuli enhances perceived contingency.

Castiello¹,

Miller²,

Witnauer³

et al. 2022

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The user may want to process different arrays using this function and then append them by rows or by columns. A demo for both kinds of processing pipelines is provided on the GitHub repository of YEAB 2 , which uses the open dataset found in Alcalá and Buriticá (2021).…”

Section: Figurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using the same open dataset in Alcalá and Buriticá (2021), we benchmarked the optimized implementation and found that it is between 7x to 60x faster (depending on the number of datapoints) than the exhaustive search (see Figure 4). However, we provide both implementations in YEAB.…”

Section: Single-trials Analysis Of Fixed Interval and The Peak Proced...mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

YEAB: YEAB Ease the Analysis of Behavior

Temores

2023

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper introduces YEAB, an R package to process and analyze data from different experimental tasks in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, such as MED-PC raw data processing, analysis of interresponse times of variable interval schedules of reinforcement, model fitting of delay discounting data from intertemporal choice procedures, analysis of fixed-interval and peak procedure data, and more.

show abstract

“…First, there are time-accumulation models (e.g., Gallistel & Gibbon, 2000;Gibbon & Balsam, 1981), in which events are accumulated in a period of times (i.e., rates). Second, there are trial-based models (e.g., Rescorla & Wagner, 1972) which do not explicitly code the duration of events; this appears problematic given the often reported relevance of temporal information as a learning factor in both humans and animals (e.g., Buriticá & Alcalá, 2019;Nasser & Delamater, 2016). However, a number of attempts to integrate timing into the classic trial-based models have been suggested (e.g., Delamater, Desouza, Rivkin, & Derman, 2014;Donahoe, Burgos, & Palmer, 1993;Gershman, 2015;Ghirlanda, Lind, & Enquist, 2020;Luzardo, Alonso, & Mondragon, 2017).…”

Section: Probabilities Versus Ratesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Benefitting from trial spacing without the cost of prolonged training: Frequency, not duration, of trials with absent stimuli enhances perceived contingency

Castiello¹,

Miller²,

Witnauer³

et al. 2020

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The statistical relation between two events influences the perception of how well one event relates to the presence or absence of another. The simultaneous absence of both events, just like their mutual occurrence, is theoretically relevant for describing their contingency. However, humans tend to weight co-occurring information more heavily than co-absent information. We explored the relevance of co-absent events by varying the duration and frequency of trials without stimuli. In three experiments, we used a rapid trial streaming procedure, and found that the perceived association between events is enhanced with increased frequency of co-absent events. Duration of co-absent events did not play as strong role on judgments of association as did frequency. These findings suggest ways in which the benefits of trial spacing, which are effectively co-absence events, could be preserved without increasing total training time. Specifically, the present results suggest that the benefits of distributed practice can be obtained without increasing the length of the training session by shortening the intervals between events. We also discuss five potential accounts of how the co-absent experience is processed: contingency sensitivity, a memory testing effect, associative interference, reduced cognitive load, and consolidation.

show abstract

Increased generalization in a peak procedure after delayed reinforcement

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Benefiting from trial spacing without the cost of prolonged training: Frequency, not duration, of trials with absent stimuli enhances perceived contingency.

Benefiting from trial spacing without the cost of prolonged training: Frequency, not duration, of trials with absent stimuli enhances perceived contingency.

YEAB: YEAB Ease the Analysis of Behavior

Benefitting from trial spacing without the cost of prolonged training: Frequency, not duration, of trials with absent stimuli enhances perceived contingency

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About