Stimulus representation in SOP: II. An application to inhibition of delay.

摘要: Abstract The componential extension of SOP accounts for conditioned response (CR) timing in Pavlovian conditioning by assuming that learning accrues with relative independence to stimulus elements are differentially occasioned during the duration (CS). SOP, using a competitive rule and assumption temporal emerges via resolution what is equivalent an “AX+BX−” discrimination, predicts progressive increase latency CR over training, or Pavlov refer as “inhibition delay.” Other models, which use noncompetitive rules, do not predict inhibition delay. Either type model makes prediction indicated, independently length CS–unconditioned (US) interval. We report two experiments demonstrated delay when rabbits were trained relatively long, but short, CS–US intervals. To account this divergence, we assumed trace involves kinds elements, some temporally distributed pattern activity CS duration, randomly pattern. This representation, only allows long short intervals, combination SOP’s performance deduces CR’s “Weber variability.”