Başak Akdoğan, Amita Wanar, Benjamin K Gersten, Charles R Gallistel, Peter D Balsam
{"title":"Temporal encoding: Relative and absolute representations of time guide behavior.","authors":"Başak Akdoğan, Amita Wanar, Benjamin K Gersten, Charles R Gallistel, Peter D Balsam","doi":"10.1037/xan0000345","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000345","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Temporal information-processing is critical for adaptive behavior and goal-directed action. It is thus crucial to understand how the temporal distance between behaviorally relevant events is encoded to guide behavior. However, research on temporal representations has yielded mixed findings as to whether organisms utilize relative versus absolute judgments of time intervals. To address this fundamental question about the timing mechanism, we tested mice in a duration discrimination procedure in which they learned to correctly categorize tones of different durations as short or long. After being trained on a pair of target intervals, the mice were transferred to conditions in which cue durations and corresponding response locations were systematically manipulated so that either the relative or absolute mapping remained constant. The findings indicate that transfer occurred most readily when relative relationships of durations and response locations were preserved. In contrast, when subjects had to re-map these relative relations, even when positive transfer initially occurred based on absolute mappings, their temporal discrimination performance was impaired, and they required extensive training to re-establish temporal control. These results demonstrate that mice can represent experienced durations both as having a certain magnitude (absolute representation) and as being shorter or longer of the two durations (an ordinal relation to other cue durations), with relational control having a more enduring influence in temporal discriminations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"49 1","pages":"46-61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10472319/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10495620","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}
Sloane Paulcan, Anne Giersch, Virginie van Wassenhove, Valérie Doyère
{"title":"Temporal order processing in rats depends on the training protocol.","authors":"Sloane Paulcan, Anne Giersch, Virginie van Wassenhove, Valérie Doyère","doi":"10.1037/xan0000347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000347","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The perception of temporal order can help infer the causal structure of the world. By investigating the perceptual signatures of audiovisual temporal order in rats, we demonstrate the importance of the protocol design for reliable order processing. Rats trained with both reinforced audiovisual trials and non-reinforced unisensory trials (two consecutive tones or flashes) learned the task surprisingly faster than rats trained with reinforced multisensory trials only. They also displayed signatures of temporal order perception, such as individual biases and sequential effects that are well described in humans, and impaired in clinical populations. We conclude that an experimental protocol requiring individuals to process all stimuli in a sequence is compulsory to ensure temporal order processing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"49 1","pages":"31-45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10740228","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}
{"title":"Pigeons discount continuously changing perspective during action recognition.","authors":"Robert G Cook, Daniel Brooks, Muhammad A J Qadri","doi":"10.1037/xan0000338","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000338","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An important challenge for animal and artificial visual systems is separating the system's own motions from the movements of other animals or events. To examine this issue in birds, we conducted three experiments testing four pigeons in a go/no-go action discrimination. The pigeons discriminated whether a digital human model was exhibiting an extended series of articulated motions or one of a set of static poses from the same video. They were required to do so while the rendering camera's perspective changed continually during each trial's 20-s video presentation. Experiment 1 found that pigeons easily discount the camera's continuous motion. Experiments 2 and 3, by testing novel sequences of the behavior, novel behaviors, silhouettes, and a form of conditional discrimination, revealed this to be a general capacity. Overall, the discrimination was predominantly mediated by global action cues, although a small contribution of image-based statistical features was detected. Collectively, the experiments reveal pigeons can readily separate and discount constantly changing perspectives while processing others' actions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"49 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10738059","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}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for The Role of Numerical and Nonnumerical Magnitudes in Pigeons’ Conditional Discrimination Behavior","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/xan0000368.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000368.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135106753","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}
{"title":"Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/xan0000366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000366","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134884634","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}
Andrew T Marshall, Briac Halbout, Christy N Munson, Collin Hutson, Sean B Ostlund
{"title":"Flexible control of Pavlovian-instrumental transfer based on expected reward value.","authors":"Andrew T Marshall, Briac Halbout, Christy N Munson, Collin Hutson, Sean B Ostlund","doi":"10.1037/xan0000348","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000348","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) paradigm is widely used to assay the motivational influence of reward-predictive cues, reflected by their ability to invigorate instrumental behavior. Leading theories assume that a cue's motivational properties are tied to predicted reward value. We outline an alternative view that recognizes that reward-predictive cues may suppress rather than motivate instrumental behavior under certain conditions, an effect termed positive conditioned suppression. We posit that cues signaling imminent reward delivery tend to inhibit instrumental behavior, which is exploratory by nature, in order to facilitate efficient retrieval of the expected reward. According to this view, the motivation to engage in instrumental behavior during a cue should be inversely related to the value of the predicted reward, since there is more to lose by failing to secure a high-value reward than a low-value reward. We tested this hypothesis in rats using a PIT protocol known to induce positive conditioned suppression. In Experiment 1, cues signaling different reward magnitudes elicited distinct response patterns. Whereas the one-pellet cue increased instrumental behavior, cues signaling three or nine pellets suppressed instrumental behavior and elicited high levels of food-port activity. Experiment 2 found that reward-predictive cues suppressed instrumental behavior and increased food-port activity in a flexible manner that was disrupted by post-training reward devaluation. Further analyses suggest that these findings were not driven by overt competition between the instrumental and food-port responses. We discuss how the PIT task may provide a useful tool for studying cognitive control over cue-motivated behavior in rodents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"49 1","pages":"14-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10561628/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10740229","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}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for The Effects of Feature Extinction in Dual-Response Feature-Positive Discriminations","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/xan0000360.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000360.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135106776","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}
Charles Locurto, James Donohue, Amy Hasenauer, Daniel McMaster, Matthew Morrow, Gabriela Castro, Pilar Segura Tobarra, Alexandra Eckert
{"title":"There's something about a pattern: Choice between pattern and random sequences in implicit learning.","authors":"Charles Locurto, James Donohue, Amy Hasenauer, Daniel McMaster, Matthew Morrow, Gabriela Castro, Pilar Segura Tobarra, Alexandra Eckert","doi":"10.1037/xan0000335","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000335","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three experiments examined the preference for pattern versus random sequences. In all experiments the elements composing the sequences were visual images presented sequentially on a touchscreen. Reinforcement was randomly programmed on .16 of the element presentations for each type of trial. For pattern sequences the elements occurred in the same order and at the same location on each presentation of the sequence. For random sequences the elements could occur in any order on a given trial. The experiments were conducted in two phases. In the first phase, termed forced-choice, subjects, male Silver Kings, were given either a pattern sequence or a random sequence to work on in a given trial. Subjects received this first phase until performance on each type of sequence was equated. In the second phase, termed free-choice, subjects could choose which of the two sequences to work on in each trial. Results indicated that although performance was equated between the two types of sequences in the forced-choice phase, when given the choice subjects selected the pattern sequence on 70 percent of the trials. This finding held in Experiments 1 and 2 although there were procedural differences between these two experiments. In Experiment 3 the reinforcement probability for random sequences was increased to be 50 percent higher than for pattern sequence. In this arrangement subjects chose random sequences on nearly 83 percent of the free-choice trials, indicating that the preference for pattern sequences was not intractable. Results suggest that the preference for pattern sequences that was observed when reinforcement was equated between the two types of sequences may have been the result of the added information concerning forthcoming element presentations that was available from pattern sequences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"49 1","pages":"62-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10748566","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}
Ruth M Colwill, Andrew R Delamater, K Matthew Lattal
{"title":"Developments in associative theory: A tribute to the contributions of Robert A. Rescorla.","authors":"Ruth M Colwill, Andrew R Delamater, K Matthew Lattal","doi":"10.1037/xan0000344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000344","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The field of associative learning theory was forever changed by the contributions of Robert A. Rescorla. He created an organizational structure that gave us a framework for thinking about the key questions surrounding learning theory: what are the conditions that produce learning?, what is the content of that learning?, and how is that learning expressed in performance? He gave us beautifully sophisticated experimental designs that tackled deep theoretical problems in experimentally clever and elegant ways. And he left us with a collection of work that fundamentally altered the way we as a field think about basic learning processes. Few scientists have impacted their field in the way that Rescorla impacted animal learning theory. In this paper, we introduce this special issue (Developments in Associative Theory: A Tribute to Robert A. Rescorla) by considering some of the many ways in which Rescorla's empirical and theoretical contributions impacted learning theory over his almost 50-year career. We conclude by identifying multiple fundamental issues we think he would have found especially fruitful to pursue as we continue to move forward. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"48 4","pages":"245-264"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9674851","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}
Ellen M O'Donoghue, Leyre Castro, Edward A Wasserman
{"title":"Hierarchical and configural control in conditional discrimination learning.","authors":"Ellen M O'Donoghue, Leyre Castro, Edward A Wasserman","doi":"10.1037/xan0000342","DOIUrl":"10.1037/xan0000342","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Considerable discussion has concerned the role of context in conditional discrimination learning. Some authors have proposed that contexts might operate hierarchically on CS-US associations, whereas others have proposed that the context plus the CS might be processed configurally. In the present article, we report the results of two experiments that assessed the role of context on pigeons' conditional discrimination learning. In Experiment 1, we found that our pigeons' responding was inconsistent with hierarchical processing; instead, they may have either relied on local features or on configural compounds comprising the context and the discriminative stimulus presented on each trial. In Experiment 2, we precluded the possibility of using local features by requiring the pigeons to attend to both of the compounds that were simultaneously presented on each trial to solve the task. Methodological and theoretical issues are discussed in light of this work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54259,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Psychology-Animal Learning and Cognition","volume":"48 4","pages":"370-382"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10323753/pdf/nihms-1899394.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9754172","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}