Transfer of directed-forgetting cues across discrimination tasks with pigeons |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Karen?L?RoperEmail author Deviney?M?Chaponis Aaron?P?Blaisdell |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA. roperk@wfu.edu |
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Abstract: | Directed forgetting is shown as impaired performance on a memory test following an instruction that the presented items will
not be tested. Experiments utilizing the delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) task have demonstrated that this ability to actively
control memory is present in animals; however, no study has yet confirmed that cues to forget established in one DMTS discrimination
will successfully transfer to other discriminations. Lacking such evidence, it is not clear whether forgetting cues act as
“higher level” task instructions or are represented more simply, perhaps as part of a sample-specific sequence of events.
The present study revealed good transfer of the forget cue function in pigeons after prior training with the forget cues in
a separate discrimination. This finding is discussed in relation to analogous experiments on occasion setting, in which training
within more than one discriminative context has been shown to be critical to the transfer of a conditional relation. |
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