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Context, Ambiguity, and Classical Conditioning
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The authors suggest that ambiguity and context may be just as important in classical condi tioning as they are in linguistics, and suggest that Pavlovian cues have multiple meanings, and the behavior they evoke also depends on the cur rent context.Abstract:
Ambiguity is a fundamental as pect of language. Words and phrases often have more than one meaning. The ambiguity is resolved, at least in part, by information pro vided by the context. For example, "Fire!" has different meanings, and evokes very different responses, in the movie theater and in the shoot ing gallery. I would like to suggest that ambiguity and context may be just as important in classical condi tioning. When Pavlovian cues have multiple meanings, the behavior they evoke also depends on the cur rent context.read more
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Context, time, and memory retrieval in the interference paradigms of Pavlovian learning.
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Sources of relapse after extinction in Pavlovian and instrumental learning
TL;DR: This article reviews animal learning research which suggests that extinction does not erase the original learning, but rather makes behavior especially sensitive to the background, or context, in which it occurs.