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Evaluating the effectiveness of a board game to learn biological psychology facts (2023)
Journal Article
Whitt, E., & Haselgrove, M. (2023). Evaluating the effectiveness of a board game to learn biological psychology facts. Psychology Teaching Review, 29(1), 13-24. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsptr.2023.29.1.13

Using games in a classroom setting to help engagement and learning is becoming popular, but controlled investigations into the benefits of games are few. Games are potentially a way to incorporate retrieval practice into a class and garner subsequent... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of a board game to learn biological psychology facts.

Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats’ gustatory sensory preconditioning (2021)
Journal Article
Robinson, J., Jones, P. M., & Whitt, E. J. (2021). Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats’ gustatory sensory preconditioning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(7), 1215–1227. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211054981

We report findings from two sensory preconditioning experiments in which rats consumed two flavoured solutions, each with two gustatory components (AX and BY), composed of sweet, bitter, salt, and acid elements. After this pre-exposure, rats were con... Read More about Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats’ gustatory sensory preconditioning.

Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression (2017)
Journal Article
Robinson, J., Whitt, E., & Jones, P. M. (2017). Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 43(2), 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000134

We report that stimulus novelty/familiarity is able to modulate stimulus generalization and discuss the theoretical implications of novelty/familiarity coding. Rats in Skinner boxes received clicker → shock pairings before generalization testing to a... Read More about Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression.

Improved spontaneous object recognition following spaced preexposure trials: evidence for an associative account of recognition memory (2013)
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Whitt, E., & Robinson, J. (2013). Improved spontaneous object recognition following spaced preexposure trials: evidence for an associative account of recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39(2), 174-179. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031344

Rodents' biased exploration of a novel object over a familiar object is taken as an indication of recognition memory. According to a general associative model of memory, the biased exploration is a consequence of reduced processing of the familiar ob... Read More about Improved spontaneous object recognition following spaced preexposure trials: evidence for an associative account of recognition memory.

Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression in rats is dependent on the perirhinal cortex (2010)
Journal Article
Robinson, J., Whitt, E. J., Horsley, R. R., & Jones, P. M. (2010). Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression in rats is dependent on the perirhinal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124(5), 587-599. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020900

We report that bilateral, excitoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex attenuate rats' familiarity-based stimulus generalization. After surgery, rats were preexposed either to 2 auditory stimuli (A and B) or to only 1 auditory stimulus (B). Following p... Read More about Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression in rats is dependent on the perirhinal cortex.