Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31835280›Full record

ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2020

Relapse of operant behavior after response elimination with an extinction or an omission contingency.

Catalina N Rey, Eric A Thrailkill, Kate L Goldberg, Mark E Bouton

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Article in Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Catalina N ReyUniversity of Vermont.
Eric A ThrailkillUniversity of Vermont.
Kate L GoldbergUniversity of Vermont.
Mark E BoutonUniversity of Vermont.
University of Vermont · US

Funding

Extinction and Recovery in Associative LearningR01DA033123 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI BOUTON, MARK E · 2012 to 2021
$3.6M
Training in Translational Methods for Assessing Behavior Change and Relapse MechanismsK01DA044456 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI THRAILKILL, ERIC ALLEN · 2018 to 2022
$621k
NIDA NIH HHS K01 DA044456NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA033123
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study compared relapse after responding was eliminated by extinction or omission training in rats. In Experiment 1, lever pressing was reinforced with food pellets in Context A and then eliminated with either extinction or omission training in Context B. The response was then tested in Contexts A and B in either the presence or absence of free food pellets delivered on a random time schedule. All rats showed higher responding when tested in Context A than Context B, and there was little evidence that omission training attenuated this ABA renewal effect. Noncontingent pellets increased responding after extinction but not after omission. However, when responding on the last day of response elimination was compared to responding during the test in the response-elimination context, there was some evidence that omission-trained rats showed a small increase in responding even when tested with free pellets. Results of Experiment 2 suggest this increase was not due to differences in the temporal distribution of pellets during elimination and the test, and that the result might be due to mere removal of the omission contingency, but any such effect is small and difficult to detect statistically. The results provide new information about factors generating relapse after omission training.

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Conditioning, OperantExtinction, PsychologicalAnimalsFemaleRatsRats, WistarReinforcement, PsychologyReinforcement ScheduleRewarddifferential reinforcement of other behaviorextinctionomissionreinstatementrelapserenewal

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PMID31835280
PMCPMC7814993
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