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A Review of Backward Higher-Order Conditioning: Implications for a Pavlovian Conditioning Analysis of Stimulus Equivalence
Stimulus equivalence (SE) is demonstrated when participants exposed to conditional discrimination training pass tests for reflexivity, symmetry,...
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Type C Motivation in Rats
Sharpe, Schoenbaum, and coworkers developed a method for studying the learning of associations between neutral stimuli in rats and for examining the...
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Cling together, swing together? Assessing indirect retrieval of stimulus-response bindings for associated stimuli
When a stimulus is paired with a response, a stimulus-response (SR) binding (or event file) is formed. Subsequent stimulus repetition retrieves the...
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Simultaneous learning of directional and non-directional stimulus relations in baboons (Papio papio)
While humans exposed to a sequential stimulus pairing A-B are commonly assumed to form a bidirectional mental relation between A and B, evidence that...
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From the Jones-Plug to the Amphora: Could Stemmer´s Theory of Language Acquisition Complement Skinner´s Theory of Listener Behavior?
Stemmer’s theory of language acquisition is an empiricist account of listener behavior learning based on ostensive processes similar to Pavlovian...
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Environmental Cues Can Indirectly Acquire Cocaine-Eliciting Changes in Heart Rate: A Pilot Study of Derived Relational Responding, the Transfer of Function among Cocaine Users
Identifying the processes by which environmental stimuli can come to influence drug use is important for develo** more efficacious interventions....
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Effects of Stimulus Dimension on the Emergence of Transitivity Relations
The effect of stimuli dimension was assessed on the emergence of transitivity relations by the use of a go/no go procedure and the training of...
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Reflections on Eriksen’s seminal essay on discrimination, performance and learning without awareness
Early in his career C.W. Eriksen published in Psychological Review what turned out to be a highly impactful critique on methods and findings on the...
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A-learning: A new formulation of associative learning theory
We present a new mathematical formulation of associative learning focused on non-human animals, which we call A-learning. Building on current animal...
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Mental imagery in animals: Learning, memory, and decision-making in the face of missing information
When we open our eyes, we see a world filled with objects and events. Yet, due to occlusion of some objects by others, we only have partial...
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Transfer of discriminative control during stimulus fading conducted without reinforcement
Using trial-and-error training, eight pigeons did not learn to discriminate between 45° and 135° lines, but did learn to discriminate between red and...
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Associations and hallucinations in mice and men
Powers et al. (
2017 , Science, 357 (6351), 596–600) report that Pavlovian conditioning can result in the perception of a stimulus in its absence, and...