Abstract

BERNAL-GAMBOA, Rodolfo  and  NIETO, Javier. Context-switch Effect Produced by the Ambiguity of the Meaning of a Cue. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2012, vol.2, n.3, pp.899-909. ISSN 2007-4719.

One experiment analyzed whether context dependency of a flavor-illness association depends on the extinction of a different flavor-illness association in rats. There were two sessions per day, one in context A and the other session in context B. A half of the rats were allowed to drink distilled water within context B, while the other half of the group spent the same amount of time in context B without access to water. In context A, half of the subjects received conditioning and extinction of flavor X, while the other half did not received extinction. Then conditioning of flavor Y was conducted for all rats in context A. Finally, testing of Y was conducted in context A for half of the rats, while the other half received the test in context B. Results shown that extinction of flavor X affected the recovery of subsequently acquired information about flavor Y regardless the treatment received in context B. This data is consistent with Atttentional Theory of Context Processing.

Keywords : Rats; Extinction; Context; Taste Aversion Learning.

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