Interactions between retroactive-interference and context-mediated treatments that impair Pavlovian conditioned responding

Wheeler, Daniel S.; Miller, Ralph R.

doi:10.3758/bf03196071

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“…SOCR, like the ECH, anticipates counteraction between select response-degrading treatments, but also predicts that response-enhancing treatments can counteract each other. Wheeler and Miller (2007) observed two counteraction effects that are not anticipated by the ECH, but maintain some consistency with the spirit of the model. They investigated the potential interaction between degraded contingency and retroactive interference in a sensorypreconditioning preparation.…”

Section: Counteraction Effects Without Overshadowing or Blockingmentioning

confidence: 65%

Determinants of cue interactions

Wheeler

Miller

2008

Behavioural Processes

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In a Pavlovian conditioning situation, there are many training variables that may affect responding to a conditioned stimulus (CS), such as contiguity, contingency, and the presence of other CSs. This review describes recent experiments that show that some manipulations that usually decrease responding to a CS may have the opposite effect when they are combined with other normally pernicious manipulations. A theoretical framework that explains these so-called counteraction effects is provided. The apparent boundary conditions on the effects and limitations of the theory are discussed.

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Determinants of cue interactions

Wheeler

Miller

2008

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“…A final possibility is that, while the drug is not aversive, per se , the state elicited by the drug-associated cue is. In this case, the drug-associated taste cue may elicit cue-induced withdrawal, for example, which is an aversive state known to support taste aversion (Frumkin, 1976; McDonald & Hong, 2004; McDonald, Parker, & Siegel, 1997; Siegel, 1975, 1999; Weise-Kelly & Siegel, 2001; Wheeler & Miller, 2007; Wheeler et al, 2008). Taken together, the development of an aversive state (perhaps, the most likely interpretation) also would be expected to recruit other neuronal circuits.…”

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Gustatory insular cortex lesions disrupt drug-induced, but not lithium chloride-induced, suppression of conditioned stimulus intake.

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Baldwin

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Behavioral Neuroscience

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Rats suppress intake of a normally preferred 0.15% saccharin conditioned stimulus (CS) when it is paired with an aversive agent like lithium chloride (LiCl) or a preferred substances such as sucrose or a drug of abuse. The reward comparison hypothesis suggests that rats avoid intake of a saccharin cue following pairings with a drug of abuse because the rats are anticipating the availability of the rewarding properties of the drug. The present study used bilateral ibotenic acid lesions to examine the role of the gustatory cortex in the suppression of CS intake induced by cocaine, morphine, and LiCl. The results show that bilateral lesions of the insular gustatory cortex (1) fully prevent the suppressive effects of both a 15- and a 30-mg/kg dose of morphine, (2) attenuate the suppressive effect of a 10 mg/kg dose of cocaine, but (3) are overridden by a 20 mg/kg dose of the drug. Finally, these same cortical lesions had no impact on LiCl-induced conditioned taste aversion. The current data show that the insular taste cortex plays an integral role in drug-induced avoidance of a gustatory CS.

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“…That is to say, participants responded more to a cue that was both overshadowed and extinguished than to a cue that was either overshadowed or extinguished. Although counterintuitive, similar counteractive effects have been reported between, for example, overshadowing and latent inhibition, overshadowing and degraded contingency, or cue-interference and degraded contingency (Blaisdell et al, 1998; Urcelay and Miller, 2006; Wheeler and Miller, 2007). These effects pose insurmountable problems for the vast majority of learning models.…”

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Changes in Cue Configuration Reduce the Impact of Interfering Information in a Predictive Learning Task

2017

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Decades of research in extinction and interference show that contexts can play a critical role at disambiguating the meaning of cues that have been paired with different outcomes at different times. For instance, if a cue x is followed by outcome 1 in the first phase of an experiment and by outcome 2 in a second phase, responses to cue x tend to be consistent with outcome 2 when tested in a context similar to that of the second phase of the experiment. However, if participants are taken back to the original context of the first phase (i.e., ABA renewal) or to a completely new context (i.e., ABC or AAB renewal), their responses to x tend to be more consistent with outcome 1. Although the role of physical and temporal contexts has been well studied, other factors that can also modulate the selective retrieval of information after interference have received less attention. The present series of experiments shows how changes in cue configuration can modulate responding in a similar manner. Across five experiments using a human predictive learning task, we found that adding, removing or replacing elements from a compound cue that had undergone an interference treatment gave rise to a recovery of responding akin to that observed after context changes in AAB renewal. These results are consistent with those of previous studies exploring the effect of changes of cue configuration on interference. Taken together, these studies suggest that a change in cue configuration can have the functional properties of a context change, a finding with important implications for formal models of configural learning and for classical accounts of interference and information retrieval.

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Interactions between retroactive-interference and context-mediated treatments that impair Pavlovian conditioned responding

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Determinants of cue interactions

Determinants of cue interactions

Gustatory insular cortex lesions disrupt drug-induced, but not lithium chloride-induced, suppression of conditioned stimulus intake.

Changes in Cue Configuration Reduce the Impact of Interfering Information in a Predictive Learning Task

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