R.A. Rescorla’s scientific contributions

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Conditioned inhibition and extinction
  • Article

January 1979

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R.A. Rescorla

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... This view aligns with proposals that conditioned inhibitors cancel or reduce outcome-specific expectancies generated by conditioned excitors, in order to estimate outcome probability. However, in the absence of such backdrop expectancies, inhibitors should be associatively inert (Konorski, 1948;Lysle & Fowler, 1985;Miller & Matzel, 1988;Rescorla, 1979). That is, conditioned inhibition depends on excitation not only for its acquisition but also for its expression. ...

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OFC neurons do not represent the negative value of a conditioned inhibitor
Conditioned inhibition and extinction
  • Citing Article
  • January 1979