ArticleBehavioral neuroscience2021
Renewal of goal direction with a context change after habit learning.
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- Making and breaking habits: Revisiting the definitions and behavioral factors that influence habits in animals.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Review
- Habit and persistence.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Review
- The temporal structure of goal-directed and habitual operant behavior.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- A comparison of renewal, spontaneous recovery, and reacquisition after punishment and extinction.Learning & behavior · 2023Article
- Early-life seizures alter habit behavior formation and fronto-striatal circuit dynamics.Epilepsy & behavior : E&B · 2023Article
- Taste aversion learning in the snail Cornu aspersum.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Intermittent access training produces greater motivation for a non-drug reinforcer than long access training.Learning & behavior · 2022Article
- Context, attention, and the switch between habit and goal-direction in behavior.Learning & behavior · 2021Review
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- New functions of the rodent prelimbic and infralimbic cortex in instrumental behavior.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2021Review
- BEHAVIORAL AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF PAVLOVIAN AND INSTRUMENTAL EXTINCTION LEARNING.Physiological reviews · 2021Review
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An instrumental action can be goal-directed after a moderate amount of practice and then convert to habit after more extensive practice. Recent evidence suggests, however, that habits can return to action status after different environmental manipulations. The present experiments therefore asked whether habit learning interferes with goal direction in a context-dependent manner like other types of retroactive interference (e.g., extinction, punishment, counterconditioning). In Experiment 1, rats were given a moderate amount of instrumental training to form an action in one context (Context A) and then more extended training of the same response to form a habit in another context (Context B). We then performed reinforcer devaluation with taste aversion conditioning in both contexts, and tested the response in both contexts. The response remained habitual in Context B, but was goal-directed in Context A, indicating renewal of goal direction after habit learning. Experiment 2 expanded on Experiment 1 by testing the response in a third context (Context C). It found that the habitual response also renewed as action in this context. Together, the results establish a parallel between habit and extinction learning: Conversion to habit does not destroy action knowledge, but interferes with it in a context-specific way. They are also consistent with other results suggesting that habit is specific to the context in which it is learned, whereas goal-direction can transfer between contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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