Is Discriminative Responding in Reward Outcome Serial Learning Mediated by Item Memories or by Position Cues?

Capaldi, E. J.; Alptekin, Suzan; Miller, Daniel J.; Birmingham, Kimberly M.

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“…Using similar training methods, however, with initial training on an SNP series, Burns et al (2004) found slow approach on the second trials of NP and SSNP transfer series. One possibility entertained by Capaldi et al (1997) was that position learning requires extensive training, but reward-memory learning occurs rapidly. However, Burns and Criddle (2001) found that slower running on the middle trial of an SNP series appeared also on the middle trial of an NNN transfer series after both limited and extensive training.…”

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“…Here we consider two contemporary theoretical accounts, not necessarily mutually exclusive, of the learning that manifests itself in such problems. One account (e.g., Capaldi, Alptekin, Miller, & Birmingham, 1997) emphasizes the memories of differing rewards being associated with current and future reward values. Another account (e.g., Burns, Kinney, & Criddle, 2000) stresses cues related to the ordinal position of the rewards, which may be associated with reward values in that location.…”

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“…A good example of a serial learning problem that does not seem to be explicable unless reference is made to reward-memory associations can be found in an experiment reported by Capaldi et al (1997). A trio of series was repeated each day in unpredictable order.…”

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“…Series such as those used by Capaldi et al (1997) are rare, however. Usually, the series employed confound position and memory cues, and it is from experiments with this confounding that much of the evidence for position learning comes.…”

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An Attempt at Blocking of Position Learning by Training with Reward-Memory Associations

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Johnson

2006

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An Attempt at Blocking of Position Learning by Training with Reward-Memory Associations

Burns

Johnson

2006

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“…Capaldi, Alptekin, Miller, and Birmingham (1997) have proposed that reward memories are decidedly salient cues for hungry animals, and will control behavior even when position information is an equally valid predictor. In one of their experiments, a group trained with position, but not reward memory, as a relevant cue for predicting no reward failed to learn to approach slowly on the never-rewarded trial with 18 days of training.…”

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Retention of Ordinal Position Information with Limited and Extended Serial Training

Burns

Criddle

2001

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To examine the possibility that position cues are temporal and therefore ineffective early in serial runway training, rats were runway trained on a three-trial series of different rewards. The series was SNP', where Sand P' refer to series trials that concluded with four sucrose or eight plain Noyes pellets, respectively. The middle trial was never rewarded (N) . Early in training, a significant pattern of running slowly on the middle trial and rapidly on the initial and terminal trials had emerged. Transfer tests to series of trials (NNN) never rewarded after this limited training (on Day 19) and later after extended training (Day 39) , each gave evidence that the rats relied upon position cues in the tests. The three-trial patterns established before the tests were retained on the three trials of the NNN series. The results suggest the prevalence of position learning, but they work against the idea that position cues are temporal and effective only with extended training.Just as in the development of theoretical models for human serial learning, realization of the importance for animals of information about the ordinal position of items in a list followed an initial theoretical emphasis on the role of the memories of list items. Though position learning is now emphasized (e.g., Henson, 1998) in human cognition, it began receiving attention (e.g., Bower, 1971 ;Ebenholtz, 1972) long after memoryassociation theories (e. g., Ebbinghaus, 1913) had developed rich traditions. The study of memories, usually of differing reward events, in animal serial learning also has a long history that has produced clear evidence for animals employing reward memories in serial problems; and the understanding of the nature of those memories is now fairly sophisticated (reviewed by Capaldi, 1994). Evidence that animals use information about the position of items in a list is recent, but also clear

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Position Cues and Reward Memories as Compatible Components of Serial Learning

Burns

Kinney

Criddle

2000

Learning and Motivation

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Is Discriminative Responding in Reward Outcome Serial Learning Mediated by Item Memories or by Position Cues?

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An Attempt at Blocking of Position Learning by Training with Reward-Memory Associations

An Attempt at Blocking of Position Learning by Training with Reward-Memory Associations

Retention of Ordinal Position Information with Limited and Extended Serial Training

Position Cues and Reward Memories as Compatible Components of Serial Learning

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