ReviewBehavioural processes2023
Learning to stop responding.
Review in Behavioural processes, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Behavioural and Noise-Level Differences Associated with Response-Independent Treat Delivery in Shelter Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Brain Architecture of Punishment Learning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Sex differences in reward-based operant conditioning performance and neurotransmitter changes following chronic sleep restriction stress in rats.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2025Article
- Response-specificity or response-generality of inhibition in an operant feature-negative discrimination: Influence of the amount of inhibition training and attention to the response.Learning and motivation · 2024Article
- 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
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- The temporal structure of goal-directed and habitual operant behavior.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- 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
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Abstract
Learning to stop responding is an important process that allows behavior to adapt to a changing and variable environment. This article reviews recent research in this laboratory and others that has studied how animals learn to stop responding in operant extinction, punishment, and feature-negative learning. Extinction and punishment are shown to be similar in two fundamental ways. First, the response-suppressing effects of both are highly context-specific. Second, the response-suppressing effects of both can be remarkably response-specific: Inhibition of one response transfers little to other responses. Learning to inhibit the response so specifically may result from the correction of "response error," the difference between the level of responding and what the current reinforcer supports. In contrast, the inhibition of responding that develops in feature-negative learning, where the response is reinforced during one discriminative stimulus (A) but not in a compound of A and stimulus B, is less response-specific: The inhibition of responding by stimulus B transfers and inhibits a second response, especially if the second response has itself been inhibited before. The results thus indicate both response-specific and response-general forms of behavioral inhibition. One possibility is that response-specific inhibition is learned when the circumstances encourage the organism to pay attention to the response-to what it is actually doing-as behavioral suppression is learned.
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