ArticleLearning & behavior2023
A comparison of renewal, spontaneous recovery, and reacquisition after punishment and extinction.
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- Renewal and reacquisition of substance-associated relapse.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Using differential reinforcement and extinction to increase specificity in cheetah scat detection dogs.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- Examining a punishment-related brain circuit with miniature fluorescence microscopes and deep learning.Addiction neuroscience · 2024Article
- Infralimbic cortex plays a similar role in the punishment and extinction of instrumental behavior.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2024Article
- Neurobiology of Stress-Induced Nicotine Relapse.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Response-specific effects of punishment of a discriminated operant response.Learning and motivation · 2023Article
- Partial reinforcement extinction and omission effects in the elimination and recovery of discriminated operant behavior.Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition · 2023Article
- Learning to stop responding.Behavioural processes · 2023Review
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Abstract
Punishment and extinction are both effective methods of reducing instrumental responding and may involve similar learning mechanisms. To characterize the similarities and differences between them, we examined three well-established recovery or "relapse" effects -renewal, spontaneous recovery, and reacquisition - following either punishment or extinction of an instrumental response. In Experiment 1a, both punished and extinguished responses renewed to similar degrees following a context change at test (ABA renewal). In Experiment 1b, responding spontaneously recovered to similar degrees following punishment or extinction. In Experiment 2, responding was rapidly reacquired when the response was reinforced again following extinction but not following punishment, as predicted by the idea that the reinforcer delivered in reacquisition is part of the context of punishment, but not extinction. The results collectively suggest that both punishment and extinction produce similar context-dependent retroactive interference effects. More broadly, they also suggest that punished and extinguished responses may be equally likely to return following a change of context despite the intuition that punishment might provide a more extreme and effective means of suppressing behavior. To our knowledge, this is the first direct behavioral comparison of response recovery after punishment and extinction within individual experiments.
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