All Outputs (5)

Blocking by fixed and variable stimuli: effects of stimulus distribution on blocking (2016)
Journal Article
Jennings, D. J., & Bonardi, C. (in press). Blocking by fixed and variable stimuli: effects of stimulus distribution on blocking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1216574

An experiment with rats compared the ability of fixed and variable duration cues to produce blocking. Rats in Group B (Blocking) were trained that both fixed- (F) and variable- (V) duration cues would be followed by food delivery. In a subsequent tra... Read More about Blocking by fixed and variable stimuli: effects of stimulus distribution on blocking.

Can existing associative principles explain occasion setting? Some old ideas and some new data (2016)
Journal Article
Bonardi, C., Robinson, J., & Jennings, D. (2017). Can existing associative principles explain occasion setting? Some old ideas and some new data. Behavioural Processes, 137, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.07.007

Since occasion setting was identified as a type of learning independent of 'simple' associative processes, a great deal of research has explored how occasion setters are established and operate. Initial theories suggested that they exert hierarchical... Read More about Can existing associative principles explain occasion setting? Some old ideas and some new data.

Deficits in object-in-place but not relative recency performance in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: implications for object recognition (2016)
Journal Article
Bonardi, C., Pardon, M., & Armstrong, P. (2016). Deficits in object-in-place but not relative recency performance in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: implications for object recognition. Behavioural Brain Research, 313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2016.07.008

Performance was examined on three variants of the spontaneous object recognition (SOR) task, in 5-month old APPswe/PS1dE9 mice and wild-type littermate controls. A deficit was observed in an object-in-place (OIP) task, in which mice are preexposed to... Read More about Deficits in object-in-place but not relative recency performance in the APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: implications for object recognition.

Learning about the CS during latent inhibition: preexposure enhances temporal control (2016)
Journal Article
Bonardi, C., Brilot, B., & Jennings, D. J. (2016). Learning about the CS during latent inhibition: preexposure enhances temporal control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(2), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000096

In three experiments rats were given nonreinforced preexposure to an auditory stimulus, after which this stimulus and a second, novel cue were paired with food. Lower rates of conditioned responding were observed to the preexposed stimulus across the... Read More about Learning about the CS during latent inhibition: preexposure enhances temporal control.

The effect of conditioned inhibition on the specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer effect (2016)
Journal Article
Alarcón, D., & Bonardi, C. (2016). The effect of conditioned inhibition on the specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(1), 82-94. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000087

Four experiments examined the effect of Pavlovian conditioned inhibition on specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) in human participants. The task comprised an instrumental phase in which two responses (R1, R2) were each paired with one of tw... Read More about The effect of conditioned inhibition on the specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer effect.