ArticleLearning and motivation2023
Response-specific effects of punishment of a discriminated operant response.
Article in Learning and motivation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Value control of punishment.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- 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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Abstract
To determine whether the punishment of a discriminated operant behavior has effects that are specific to the punished response, rats were reinforced for performing two different instrumental responses (lever pressing and chain pulling) in the presence of a single discriminative stimulus (S). They were then either punished with mild footshock for performing one of the responses (R1) in S, or they received the same shocks in a noncontingent manner while performing R1 in S (i.e., a yoked control). In final tests of both R1 and R2 in S, the punished rats were more suppressed to R1 than R2, but the yoked rats were not. The results extend previous results with extinction rather than punishment learning (Bouton, Trask, & Carranza-Jasso, 2016) and support a larger parallel between extinction and punishment of both free-operant and discriminated-operant responding. Punishment is like extinction in creating a response-specific inhibition of either free or discriminated operant behavior.
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