Conditional Control of Instrumental Avoidance by Context Following Extinction

Using rodents, three training arrangements (i.e., ABB vs. ABA, AAA vs. AAB and ABB vs. ABC) explored whether extinction influences the expression of avoidance in a manner controlled by context. Retention testing following extinction showed that more avoidance responding (i.e., renewal) was observed...

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Published inFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience Vol. 15; p. 730113
Main Authors Campese, Vincent D., Brannigan, Lauren A., LeDoux, Joseph E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 28.09.2021
Frontiers Media S.A
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avoidance
Behavioral Neuroscience
context
Experiments
extinction
Extinction behavior
Flooring
instrumental
Laboratory animals
Neurosciences
Noise
renewal
context
extinction
avoidance
renewal
instrumental
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Summary:Using rodents, three training arrangements (i.e., ABB vs. ABA, AAA vs. AAB and ABB vs. ABC) explored whether extinction influences the expression of avoidance in a manner controlled by context. Retention testing following extinction showed that more avoidance responding (i.e., renewal) was observed when extinguished cues were tested outside of the context where they had undergone extinction. In contrast, response rates were significantly lower when stimuli were tested within the context where extinction learning had occurred. These findings add to the emerging literature assessing the role of Pavlovian extinction processes in the development of instrumental avoidance responding by demonstrating conditional control over extinguished responding by context. This study was conducted using a within-subjects approach that minimized the potential for context-outcome associations to bias responding, and thus, reflects hierarchical control over behavior based on the specific associative status of each tested cue in each training context.
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Reviewed by: Javier Nieto, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; Nathan Holmes, University of New South Wales, Australia
This article was submitted to Learning and Memory, a section of the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Edited by: Lars Schwabe, University of Hamburg, Germany
ISSN:1662-5153
1662-5153
DOI:10.3389/fnbeh.2021.730113