Extinction and latent inhibition of within-event learning are context specific.
Exposure to a solution composed of an odor (almond) and a taste (salt) produced a context-independent preference when rats were subsequently tested with almond under a salt appetite. Postcompound exposure to either the almond or the salt alone reduced almond preferences but only when rats were tested in the extinction context. Exposure to either the almond or the salt in 1 context in advance of exposure to the compound in a different context also reduced preferences but only when the rats were tested in the context in which the element had been pre-exposed. These results show that extinction and latent inhibition of within-event learning are context specific.
Bailey
Glynis K
GK
School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. g.bailey@unsw.edu.au
Westbrook
R Frederick
RF
D000818:Animals; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004777:Environment; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D005518:Food Preferences; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D009812:Odorants; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013649:Taste