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ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2024

Use of the overexpectation effect to reduce conditioned seeking behavior controlled by nicotine.

Scott T Barrett, Matthew E Tracy, Rick A Bevins

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  1. The inside story: Interoceptive Pavlovian conditioning with the nicotine stimulus.Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition · 2025
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3 authors.

Scott T BarrettDepartment of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 238 Burnett Hall, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0308, USA. s.taylor.barrett@gmail.com.
Matthew E TracyDepartment of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 238 Burnett Hall, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0308, USA.
Rick A BevinsDepartment of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 238 Burnett Hall, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0308, USA.

Funding

Pharmacological interventions to diminish nicotine associated respondingR01DA034389 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI BEVINS, RICK A · 2012 to 2016
$1.4M
Altering nicotine reward through conditioningR21DA023951 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI BEVINS, RICK A · 2008 to 2009
$339k
NIDA NIH HHS DA023951NIDA NIH HHS DA034389
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nicotine produces robust stimulus effects that can be conditioned to form associations with reinforcing nondrug stimuli. We examine how established associations to the nicotine stimulus may be weakened via the overexpectation effect. In two experiments, we separately conditioned sucrose associations to the interoceptive nicotine stimulus (0.4 mg/kg, SC) and to a "noisy" exteroceptive contextual stimulus (oscillating houselight and white noise) via the discriminated goal-tracking task. Thereafter, we presented additional sucrose pairings with the nicotine and noisy stimuli, now in compound. Testing of the conditioned goal-tracking evoked by the nicotine and noisy stimuli in isolation-before versus after compound conditioning (Experiment 1) or between treatment and control groups (Experiment 2)-demonstrated an attenuation of conditioned responding via the overexpectation effect. We suggest that applications of the overexpectation effect may provide some promise for treatments seeking to attenuate drug-evoked conditioned responses in situations where extinction-based interventions are not suitable.

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NicotineAnimalsBehavior, AnimalConditioning, ClassicalMaleNicotinic AgonistsRatsNicotineNicotinic AgonistsAnimal and human associative learningDiscriminationModels of associative learning

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PMID38769272

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