title: Empirical and theoretical implications of additivity between reinstatement and renewal after interference in causal learning.
abstract: An experiment explored the effects of context change (renewal) and presentation of the outcome (reinstatement) upon retroactive interference in causal learning. An interference task was used where a sequential relationship between the name of a food and two different outcomes was established (A+|A*). Renewal and reinstatement effects appeared as partial attenuation of retroactive interference. The combination of both treatments produced complete recovery of first-learned information (A+). This complete reversal on the estimations of participants suggests that renewal and reinstatement effects within this paradigm imply partial recovery of the first-learned information, rather than response at a chance level emitted by confused participants. On the other hand, additivity between reinstatement and renewal suggests that reinstatement may be due to the combined effect of different underlying processes.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Jaén, Paraje de las Lagunillas s/n, Jaén 23071, Spain.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Gutiérrez
authors.forename: Juan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rosas