Navarro, Victor M., Dwyer, Dominic M.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8069-5508 and Honey, Robert C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6870-1880
2025.
The spatiotemporal dynamics of conditioned behavior: first-order and higher-order conditioning.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition
51
(2)
, pp. 92-102.
10.1037/xan0000392
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Abstract
Pavlovian conditioning procedures generate spatially and temporally distinct behaviors. For example, after rats have received pairings of a lever with food, they approach the food well during the lever (called goal-tracking) and interact with it (called sign-tracking); with these two spatially distinct behaviors being distributed differently across the temporal duration of the lever. Experiment 1 assessed the development of these spatio-temporally defined behaviors during first-order conditioning, as a function of the sequence in which the lever and food occurred (lever→food or food→lever) and the interval between them (1s or 11s). In Experiment 2, the same rats received higher-order conditioning trials in which an auditory stimulus was paired with the lever and the emergence of goal-tracking to the auditory stimulus was assessed. The results of Experiments 1 and 2 revealed dissociations between where and when learning was evident during first- and higher-order conditioning, underscoring the need for models of Pavlovian conditioning to explain both the nature and timing of different conditioned responses.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Psychology |
| Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
| ISSN: | 2329-8456 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 24 February 2025 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 21 February 2025 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2025 13:02 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176416 |
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