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
1985
The roles of information reactivation and nonassociative arousal in recovery from ECS-induced retrograde amnesia
Brown A, Sissman M, Kasprow W, Miller R. The roles of information reactivation and nonassociative arousal in recovery from ECS-induced retrograde amnesia. Physiology & Behavior 1985, 35: 183-187. PMID: 4070380, DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(85)90333-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsReminder treatmentReminder cuesArousal valuesRestoration of memoryPassive avoidance taskTest contextReminder stimulusAvoidance taskRetrograde amnesiaExperimental amnesiaAmnesiaArousalPresent researchExploratory behaviorCuesContextMemoryStimuliFamiliarizationTaskTreatmentTrainingProcessingFurther processingReactivation
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