Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition最新文献

Does new evidence affect chimpanzees' beliefs or expectations? 新的证据会影响黑猩猩的信念或期望吗？

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-26 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000434

Michael J Beran

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What it means to be a mimic. 模仿者意味着什么。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000432

Fiona R Cross

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Comparisons of extinction, counterconditioning, and novelty-facilitated extinction within ABA vs. ABC renewal designs. ABA与ABC更新设计中灭绝、对抗条件和新颖性促进的灭绝的比较。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-26 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000430

Jérémie Jozefowiez, Audrey G Huff, Lucas Petruzzo, Kimberly Casey, James E Witnauer, Ralph R Miller

{"title":"Comparisons of extinction, counterconditioning, and novelty-facilitated extinction within ABA vs. ABC renewal designs.","authors":"Jérémie Jozefowiez, Audrey G Huff, Lucas Petruzzo, Kimberly Casey, James E Witnauer, Ralph R Miller","doi":"10.1037/xan0000430","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000430","url":null,"abstract":"The expression of an association between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US) can be weakened by presenting the CS by itself (extinction [Ext]), pairing it with an appetitive US (counterconditioning [CC]), or pairing it with a neutral stimulus (novelty-facilitated extinction [NFE]). The present research tested whether NFE is less susceptible to ABC renewal than Ext and CC. In two experiments, participants viewed streams of rapid trials. After each stream, participants rated how likely it was that the target CS would be followed by the target US (i.e., predictive learning) as well as the valence of the target CS (i.e., evaluative conditioning). A stream was composed of two phases: Phase 1 established an association between the target CS and target US while Phase 2 aimed at disrupting the expression of this association through Ext, CC, or NFE. Phase 1 occurred in Context A while Phase 2 occurred in Context B. Prediction and valence ratings occurred in either Context A, B, or C. Neither Experiment 1 nor Experiment 2 found differences across interference conditions with predictive testing, regardless of test context. In Experiment 2, better controlled for context effect, CC and NFE altered the CS valence (CC more than NFE) when testing occurred in B, but the difference disappeared when testing occurred in either A or C. The present data do not support the hypothesis that NFE is less susceptible to ABC renewal than either Ext or CC. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"189-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13025862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147516630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bouba-kiki, baby chicks, and the structure of experience. Bouba-kiki，小鸡，还有经验的结构。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-06 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000435

Giorgio Vallortigara

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When clocks lapse: Comparative temporal error monitoring. 当时钟失效时：比较时间误差监控。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-10-01 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000448

Fuat Balcı

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Static outcomes: Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation at Fp3 or P3 does not modulate perceptual learning as indexed by the intermixed-blocked effect. 静态结果：在Fp3或P3的阳极经颅直流电刺激不会调节知觉学习，如混合阻断效应所示。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-09 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000418

Scott P Jones, Bailey Ajayi, Harriet J F Reid, Dominic M Dwyer

{"title":"Static outcomes: Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation at Fp3 or P3 does not modulate perceptual learning as indexed by the intermixed-blocked effect.","authors":"Scott P Jones, Bailey Ajayi, Harriet J F Reid, Dominic M Dwyer","doi":"10.1037/xan0000418","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000418","url":null,"abstract":"Perceptual learning can be defined as a relatively permanent change in discrimination performance as a result of experience or exposure. One key index of perceptual learning is the intermixed-blocked effect in which exposure to two ambiguous or perceptually similar stimuli (i.e., AX and BX) exposed in an intermixed fashion (AX, BX, AX, BX, AX, BX) produces enhanced discrimination performance compared with blocked exposure (AX, AX, AX, BX, BX, BX). Previous imaging data have implicated multiple brain regions in the intermixed-blocked effect. In the present study, transcranial direct current stimulation was used to explore the causal relationship of two regions, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), to performance. A mixed, double-blind, design administered two online sessions of transcranial direct current stimulation (active and sham) to 48 participants, although they viewed pairs of similar stimuli. Half of the participants received active stimulation to the DLPFC, and the other half to the PPC. Anodal stimulation in either the DLPFC or the PPC provided no modulation of discrimination performance relative to sham stimulation. These results potentially question the generality of the interpretation of other studies in which stimulation of these areas does impact on other indices of perceptual learning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"231-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147647542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A method for visual psychophysics based on the navigational behavior of desert ants (Melophorus bagoti). 基于沙漠蚂蚁（Melophorus bagoti）导航行为的视觉心理物理学方法。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-06 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000416

Sudhakar Deeti, Vito Lionetti, Ken Cheng

{"title":"A method for visual psychophysics based on the navigational behavior of desert ants (Melophorus bagoti).","authors":"Sudhakar Deeti, Vito Lionetti, Ken Cheng","doi":"10.1037/xan0000416","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000416","url":null,"abstract":"The Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti is known to navigate in its complex visual environment relying on path integration and landmark learning. We investigated the navigational behavior of desert ants in response to visual stimulus changes along their route to a food source. Ants were trained to self-navigate a track between their nest and a feeder, with visual stimuli placed near the feeder. After 3 days of training, we altered the visual scene by changing colors and observed the ants' reactions. The results showed that when visual changes were introduced, the ants displayed more meandering paths, more scanning behavior, and slower speeds compared with control conditions. In addition, changes in color led to significantly higher amplitudes of head oscillations and path oscillations. These findings suggest that changes to visual cues used for navigation cause noticeable changes in their movement patterns and that ants are sensitive to color (to the hue, brightness, or both) in navigation. Noting changes in speed and straightness, which are easy to measure and calculate, provides a suitable signature to indicate that ants have detected a change in the visual stimuli. This proof-of-concept study thus highlights a method for studying visual psychophysics in ants in their natural habitat. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"221-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Asymmetric effects of signal intensity on timing behavior in the peak-interval procedure. 峰间隔过程中信号强度对时序行为的不对称影响。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000431

Erick Barrón, Óscar García-Leal, Zayra Saldaña-Hernández, Jonathan Buriticá, Héctor O Camarena

{"title":"Asymmetric effects of signal intensity on timing behavior in the peak-interval procedure.","authors":"Erick Barrón, Óscar García-Leal, Zayra Saldaña-Hernández, Jonathan Buriticá, Héctor O Camarena","doi":"10.1037/xan0000431","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000431","url":null,"abstract":"The peak-interval procedure is one of the most widely used paradigms to assess interval timing in animal models, and disruptions in performance are commonly interpreted as disruptions in the timing mechanism. The time-sharing model (TSM) accounts for such changes by proposing that attentional resources are shared between temporal processing and the processing of novel events, producing pulse loss in the accumulator and leading to rightward shifts in peak time and decreases in response rate. According to the TSM, sustained changes in the temporal cue should induce continuous pulse loss and a marked degradation of temporal control. The present study tested these predictions by exposing pigeons to a peak-interval procedure in which the intensity of the temporal cue was parametrically varied throughout the trial. In Experiment 1, increases in signal intensity preserved response distributions centered near the trained interval, albeit with increased dispersion, whereas decreases in intensity produced irregular distributions, greater divergence from baseline performance, and longer response latencies. Experiment 2 showed that pigeons can acquire and maintain temporal control under low-intensity signals when explicitly trained, while preserving the same asymmetry between intensity increments and decrements. Together, these findings are not fully consistent with the predictions of the TSM and indicate that parametric variations in signal intensity primarily modulate the likelihood and consistency with which timing behavior is expressed. These results highlight the importance of considering nontiming behaviors, motivational factors, and variability when interpreting performance in peak-interval procedures and suggest the consideration of a dissociative modular hypothesis of performance as a complementary framework. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":"205-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147476315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mirror, mirror, on the … surface? Mirror-guided learning in octopuses. 镜子，镜子，在…表面？章鱼的镜像引导学习。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-09-24 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000445

Willa M Lane, Victor Ajuwon, Jan Dols Ferrez, Nicola S Clayton

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Associative changes in human learning when cues with different learning histories are trained in compound. 当不同学习历史的线索被复合训练时，人类学习的联想变化。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition Pub Date : 2026-09-21 DOI: 10.1037/xan0000446

Amin Jahani, Metin Üngör

{"title":"Associative changes in human learning when cues with different learning histories are trained in compound.","authors":"Amin Jahani, Metin Üngör","doi":"10.1037/xan0000446","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000446","url":null,"abstract":"The present experiments investigated associative changes during compound training involving cues with different learning histories. Across three human predictive learning experiments using the compound test procedure (Rescorla, 2000), participants learned about the effects of foods (cues) on inflammation, outcome ranging from -10 (or 0) to +10, in a hypothetical patient. Cues A and C were trained as excitatory (AW+10, CZ+10), whereas cues B and D as inhibitory (X+10 XB0 XD0 in Experiments 1 and 3; X+10 XB-10 XD-10 in Experiment 2). Subsequently, participants received compound training with AB+10, followed by a final test in which outcome expectations were assessed for the test compounds AD and BC. Moreover, Experiments 4a and 4b, using a forced-choice confidence test, demonstrated that participants were less certain about A after AW+10 training than about B after X+10 XB0 or X+10 XB-10 training. If cues that generate greater individual prediction error during the compound training undergo larger associative change, BC should receive higher ratings than AD. Alternatively, if participants preferentially attribute the compound outcome to the less certain cue, AD should receive higher ratings than BC. In Experiments 1 and 3, BC received higher ratings than AD, suggesting that the cue with greater individual prediction error, and higher certainty, underwent greater associative change. However, in Experiment 2, AD received higher ratings than BC, indicating greater learning about the cue with lower certainty, and lower individual prediction error. We discuss theoretical implications of our findings for the roles of prediction error and certainty in associative learning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149013301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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