Discriminated Response Patterning in Goldfish with Successive Presentation and Explicitly Unpaired Pseudoconditioning Procedures
Abstract
Goldfish show discriminated responding by shuttling in increasingly more US paired time frames than unpaired time frames both for the successive-presentation and explicitly unpaired pseudoconditioning procedures, where measurement, in addition to the CS, is made in a comparable period of the intertriai interval just prior to the US. These data strongly question stimulus-specific interpretations of response patterns arising from the use of the successive-presentation procedure, suggest that goldfish learn a conditioned inhibition to an unpaired stimulus, and may imply that the explicitly unpaired pseudoconditioning procedure is an appropriate control, in goldfish, for the successive-presentation procedure.
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