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Event representation in Pavlovian conditioning: Image and action
Abstract
In a typical Pavlovian conditioning experiment, a relatively insignificant event, the conditioned stimulus (CS), is paired with a biologically more meaningful event, the unconditioned stimulus (US). As a consequence of those pairings, the CS is thought to acquire response characteristics of the US. In this article I describe experiments with rats that suggest that under some circumstances, the CS acquires control of perceptual processing of the US, in the absence of that US itself. I present three kinds of evidence for this surrogate processing, which I liken to imagery or hallucination: (1) CSs come to control specific, sensory-evaluative responses normally evoked only by the USs; (2) CSs can substitute for USs in the establishment of new learning about those USs themselves; (3) CSs can substitute for USs in the modulation of conditioning to other events, either overshadowing (interfering) or potentiating learning, in the same manner as the USs themselves. Finally, I compare these data with evidence for conditioned sensation and imagery in humans, and suggest that imagery may be a very basic process, evolutionarily derived from perceptual and conditioning processes adapted to deal with remote or absent objects.
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- Authors
- Holland, P. C.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Holland, Peter C.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1990-11
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 105-131
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2088054419
- Cited by
- 229
- References
- 53
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- FWCI
- 1.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- classical conditioning, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned stimulus, imagery, hallucinations, overshadowing, potentiation, perceptual processing, rats
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cognition, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Columbidae, Mental Recall
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