The effect of context change on long-term habituation of the skin conductance response to signal and non-signal stimuli in humans

Schaafsma, Mary F.; Packer, Jeanette S.; Siddle, David A.T.

doi:10.1016/0301-0511(89)90036-7

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“…Similarly, an extinction session with the trained context did not produce a recovery of the habituated response. Schaafsma, Packer, and Siddle [33] studied the role of context in long-term habituation of the skin conductance response to stimuli with different motivational value. Specifically, all participants were exposed to tones and vibrations as habituation stimuli.…”

Section: Context-specific Habituation In Humansmentioning

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Context-Specific Habituation: A Review

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Chiandetti

2021

Animals

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Habituation consists of the progressive response decrement to a repeated stimulation, a response decline that is not accounted for by sensory or motor fatigue. Together with sensitization, habituation has been traditionally considered to be a prototypical example of non-associative learning, being affected only by the features of the stimulation, as for instance its intensity or frequency. However, despite this widespread belief, evidence exists showing that habituation can be specific to the context of the stimulation, thus suggesting that habituation can have an associative nature. Such an unexpected characteristic of habituation was in fact predicted by a theoretical model of associative learning proposed by Wagner in a series of works that appeared in the late 1970s. Here, we critically review the experimental data that since then have been accumulated in support of this hypothesis. What emerges from the literature is that context-specific habituation is common to several animal species and that the ability to form an association between the habituating stimulus and its context is independent of the complexity of the animal’s nervous system. Finally, context-specific habituation is observed for a variety of organism’s responses, ranging from visceral to motor and mental activities.

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Section: Context-specific Habituation In Humansmentioning

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Context-Specific Habituation: A Review

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Chiandetti

2021

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“…For example, Schaafsma, Packer, and Siddle (1989) examined the effects of changing the environmental context on long-term habituation ofthe skin conductance response (SCR) in adult humans. The SCR is an autonomic component of the OR, as is the heart-rate response studied in the present study.…”

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Ontogeny of long-term, nonassociative memory in the rat

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Campbell

1991

Animal Learning & Behavior

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The primary purpose of the present study was to assess the ontogeny of nonassoeiative learning and memory in 16-, 30-, and 75-day-old rats. In eaeh of three experiments, habituation of the orienting response to a novel auditory stimulus was measured. The orienting response is an uneonditioned reaetion elicited by innocuous environmental stimulation that habituates with repeated stimulus presentations. Both an autonomie eomponent (he art-rate deceleration) and a behavioral index (head jerk) of the orienting response were reeorded in this study. Although no age differenees in rate of habituation (i.e., rate of nonassoeiative learning) were found (see Experiment 1), a marked effeet of age on retention of habituation was observed. Preweanling rats retained habituation ofthe orienting response to an auditory stimulus for less than 4 h (Experiment 2), whereas adult animals exhibited no forgetting even after a l-week interval (Experiment 3). These results are diseussed in terms of (1) demonstrations of age-related differenees in associative memory, (2) the persistenee of nonassoeiative memories in adults, and (3) the significance of the orienting response as a measure of retention of nonassociative learning.

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