US specificity of occasion setting: hierarchical or configural learning?

Four experiments in rats examined whether occasion setters and target CSs play qualitatively different roles in occasion-setting discriminations. Two visual occasion setters, A and B, signalled reinforcement of two auditory target CSs, x and y, with sucrose and oil (A…x → suc, B…y → oil, A−, B−, x−,...

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Main Authors: Bonardi, Charlotte, Bartle, Craig, Jennings, Domhnall
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2012
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2667/