1987
The Comparator Hypothesis of Conditioned Response Generation: Manifest Conditioned Excitation and Inhibition as a Function of Relative Excitatory Strengths of CS and Conditioning Context at the Time of Testing
Kasprow W, Schachtman T, Miller R. The Comparator Hypothesis of Conditioned Response Generation: Manifest Conditioned Excitation and Inhibition as a Function of Relative Excitatory Strengths of CS and Conditioning Context at the Time of Testing. Journal Of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning And Cognition 1987, 13: 395-406. PMID: 3668477, DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.13.4.395.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTraining contextAssociative valueAssociative strengthTest contextTime of testingComparator hypothesisCS-US associationLick suppression paradigmDifferent conditioning historiesTime of conditioningComparator stimuliAssociative summationExcitatory associationsAssociative statusConditioning contextInhibitory associationsExcitatory contextSuppression paradigmExperiment 1Excitatory strengthExperiment 2Conditioning historyResponse generationDissimilar contextsExplanatory burden
1982
Latent inhibition of the conditioning context: Further evidence of contextual potentiation of retrieval in the absence of appreciable context-US associations
Balaz M, Capra S, Kasprow W, Miller R. Latent inhibition of the conditioning context: Further evidence of contextual potentiation of retrieval in the absence of appreciable context-US associations. Learning & Behavior 1982, 10: 242-248. DOI: 10.3758/bf03212277.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchContext-US associationsConditioning contextTest contextLatent inhibitionCS-US associationTone-footshock pairingsMore suppressionDirect associationFacilitated retrievalRetrieval cuesCue effectsExtensive preexposureTraining contextConditional discriminationsLick suppressionPrevious researchTest enclosurePresent experimentsConditioningWater-deprived ratsContextRetrievalConditioning parametersCuesFurther evidence