Conditioned stimulus informativeness governs conditioned stimulus−unconditioned stimulus associability.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes Conditional Stimulus Informativeness Governs Conditioned Stimulus—Unconditioned Stimulus Associability

Familiarity-Based Stimulus Generalization of Conditioned Suppression

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 tone. Before clicker training, different groups of rats received preexposure treatments designed to systematically modulate the clicker and the to...

Stimulus modality effects on transformations of conditioned enhancement and conditioned suppression in rats.

Unconditioned and conditioned effects of house-light offset and acoustic white noise on barpressing behavior maintained by intermittent food reinforcement were tested in male hooded rats. Presentations of these stimuli prior to their acquiring signal value initially tended to depress and then to enhance barpressing rate, but generally the rate of the on-going barpressing was lower during the li...

Time course of classically conditioned Purkinje cell response is determined by initial part of conditioned stimulus.

Classical conditioning of a motor response such as eyeblink is associated with the development of a pause in cerebellar Purkinje cell firing that is an important driver of the overt response. This conditioned Purkinje cell response is adaptively timed and has a specific temporal profile that probably explains the time course of the overt behavior. It is generally assumed that the temporal prope...

Central and Peripheral Conditioned Responses Induced by Intracerebral Conditioned Stimulus during Sleep

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