NS211C Spring 2008
Course Documents
Reading Assignments:
Introduction and assignment of journal articles
Rescorla, R. A. (1979). Aspects of the reinforcer learned in second-order Pavlovian conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 5, 79-95.
Winterbauer, N. E., & Balleine, B. W. (2005). Motivational control of second-order conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 334-340.
April 16, 2008
Mediated Conditioning I
Holland, P. C. (1981). Acquisition of representation-mediated conditioned food aversions. Learning and Motivation, 12, 1-18.
Holland, P. C. (1990). Event representations in Pavlovian conditioning: Image and action. Cognition, 37, 105-131.
April 23, 2008
Hall, G., Mitchell, C., Graham, S., & Lavis, Y. (2003). Acquired equivalence and distinctiveness in human discrimination learning: Evidence for associative mediation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 266–276.
Hall, G. (1996). Learning about associatively activated stimulus representations: Implications for acquired equivalence and perceptual learning. Animal Learning & Behavior, 24, 233-255.
Cancelled for Psychology Colloquium by Marc Hauser
Higher-order conditioning and temporal integration
Barnet, R. C., Cole, R. P., & Miller, R. R. (1997). Temporal integration in second-order conditioning and sensory preconditioning. Animal Learning & Behavior, 25, 221-233.
Leising, K. J., Sawa, K., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2007). Temporal integration in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning in rats. Learning & Behavior, 35, 11-18.
May 14, 2008
Higher-order conditioning and spatial integration
Sawa, K., Leising, K. J., & Blaisdell, A. P. (2005). Sensory preconditioning in spatial learning using a touch screen task in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 368-375.
Chamizo, V. D., Rodrigo, T., & Mackintosh, N. J. (2006). Spatial integration in rats. Learing & Behavior, 34, 348-354.
May 21, 2008
Neural underpinnings of higher-order conditioning I
Setlow, B., Gallagher, M., & Holland, P. C. (2002). The basolateral complex of the amygdala is necessary for acquisition but not expression of CS motivational value in appetitive Pavlovian second-order conditioning. European Journal of Neuroscience, 15, 1841–1853.
Talk, A. C., Gandhi, C. C., & Matzel, L. D. (2002). Hippocampal function during behaviorally silent associative learning: Dissociation of memory storage and expression. Hippocampus, 12, 648-656.
May 28, 2008
Neural underpinnings of higher-order conditioning II
Gewirtz, J. C., & Davis, M. (2000). Using Pavlovian higher-order conditioning paradigms to investigate the neural substrates of emotional learning and memory. Learning & Memory, 7, 257-266.
Dwyer, D. M., & Killcross, S. (2006). Lesions of the basolateral amygdala disrupt conditioning based on the retrieved representations of motivationally significant events. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 8305-8309.
June 4, 2008
Connections between higher-order associations and imagery
Dadds, M. R., Bovbjerg, D. H., Redd, W. H., & Cutmore, T. R. H. (1997). Imagery in human classical conditioning. Psychological Bulletin, 122, 89-103.
Pickens, C. L., & Holland, P. C. (2004). Conditioning and Cognition. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28, 651-661.