The role of contextual conditioning in the effect of reinforcer devaluation on instrumental performance by rats |
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| Authors: | Sietse Jonkman Yutaka Kosaki Barry J. Everitt Anthony Dickinson |
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| Affiliation: | Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | Different groups of rats received different amounts of training to lever press for a food reinforcer before an aversion was conditioned to the food. This devaluation of the reinforcer reduced responding in both subsequent extinction and reinforced tests of responding to a degree that was independent of the amount of instrumental training. Moreover, interpolating context extinction between aversion conditioning and the extinction test reduced the magnitude of the devaluation effect, thereby indicating that Pavlovian contextual conditioning may play a role in the instrumental devaluation effect. |
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| Keywords: | Reinforcer devaluation Pavlovian vs. instrumental processes Context extinction Goal-directed Habitual Lithium chloride |
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