Associative change in the representations acquired during conditional discriminations: Further analysis of the nature of conditional learning

Allman, Melissa J., Ward-Robinson, Jasper and Honey, Robert Colin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6870-1880 2004. Associative change in the representations acquired during conditional discriminations: Further analysis of the nature of conditional learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 30 (2) , pp. 118-128. 10.1037/0097-7403.30.2.118

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Abstract

Three experiments with rats investigated how the associative strengths of the representations that underlie conditional learning change when they are conditioned in compound. The results of each experiment suggest that the representation whose associative strength is most discrepant from the asymptote supported by the outcome of the trial undergoes the greatest change in associative strength. These results parallel those from simple Pavlovian conditioning (e.g., R. A. Rescorla, 2000). are inconsistent with unique-cue and configural accounts of conditional learning, and support a connectionist analysis of learning in which a "winner-takes-all" rule applies to the hidden units that can be activated and acquire associative strength at a given point in time.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0097-7403
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 09:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3326

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