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Correction of response error versus stimulus error in the extinction of discriminated operant learning.

Year: 2020

Type: erratum

Abstract: of the Pavlovian stimulus-reinforcer association, whereas response error could cause correction of the instrumental response through adjustment of the response-reinforcer association or direct inhibition of the response. Previous research has supported a role for prediction error in instrumental extinction but has confounded these 2 potential sources of error. Using new variations of the concurrent excitor paradigm (Experiment 1) and the overexpectation paradigm (Experiment 2), the present experiments manipulated response error while controlling stimulus error. Both demonstrated that response error plays a role in instrumental extinction. When a discriminated operant response is not reinforced, response error correction may cause the animal to learn to suppress that specific response. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition

DOI: 10.1037/xan0000267

Authors: Mark E. Bouton, Eric A. Thrailkill, Sydney Trask, Felipe Alfaro

Language: English

Topic: Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse

Awards: Extinction and Recovery in Associative Learning, G5479586842

OpenAlex ID: W3046135311

Cites: 40

Cited by: 7

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