CROSS-MODAL TRANSFER AS A FUNCTION OF SIMILARITIES BETWEEN TRAINING TASKS IN CLASSICAL-CONDITIONING OF THE RABBIT
CROSS-MODAL TRANSFER AS A FUNCTION OF SIMILARITIES BETWEEN TRAINING TASKS IN CLASSICAL-CONDITIONING OF THE RABBIT
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DOI:
10.3758/bf03213365
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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KEHOE, EJ
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HOLT, PE;KEHOE, EJ
The present experiments examined transfer of training from visual to auditory sensory modalities in classical conditioning of the rabbit''s nictitating membrane response. Experiment 1 examined transfer from initial training with a single visual CS [conditioned stimulus] to subsequent auditory discrimination training, and experiment 2 examined transfer from visual discrimination training to auditory discrimination training. The major findings were that initial conditioning of a visual CS facilitated the overall rate of CR [conditioned response] acquisition to the auditory CS separate from the requirements for discrimination learning (experiments 1 and 2), and initial visual discrimination training facilitated auditory discrimination learning (experiment 2). Thus, the animals appeared to encode separately both contiguous CS-US [unconditioned stimulus] relations and CS+ versus CS- relations during initial visual training. The results are discussed with respect to theories of extradimensional transfer.