A cue specifically associated with extinction reduces response recovery in human predictive learning

• A. Matías Gámez ^[1] ; Pedro M. Ogállar ^[2] ; Rodolfo Bernal-Gamboa ^[3]
  1. [1] Universidad de Córdoba

     Universidad de Córdoba

     Cordoba, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad de Jaén

     Universidad de Jaén

     Jaén, España

     
  3. [3] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

     Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

     México

     

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• Localización: Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental, ISSN-e 1576-8597, ISSN 0211-2159, Vol. 43, Nº 2, 2022
• Idioma: inglés
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  • An experiment evaluated whether a stimulus associated with extinction can attenuate the reinstatement of a previously extinguished predictive learning relationship in humans. Participants learned a specific relationship between two cues (X and Y) and two outcomes (O1 and O2) during the first phase. Throughout extinction, both cues were presented without outcomes. Then, testing was conducted after exposure to the original outcomes. We found a reduction of the reinstatement effect when participants received a cue associated with extinction, but not when testing involved a novel cue. This result indicates that the reductive effect depends on the cue’s specific association with extinction. The findings are consistent with the theoretical view that explains reinstatement as a failure to retrieve the extinction learning.