Reactivation of an appetitive discrimination memory following retroactive interference |
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Authors: | Gregory J Smith Norman E Spear |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, 13901, Binghamton, New York
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Abstract: | The present experiment employed an appetitive spatial discrimination response to examine alleviation of forgetting induced by retroactive interference. For separate groups of rats, a footshock that had occurred during acquisition contingent upon a correct response was tested for its effectiveness as a reactivation treatment. The results indicated that the footshock effectively alleviated forgetting, but only for rats experiencing the shock stimulus during original learning. These results suggest that a reactivation treatment may arouse affective or stimulus properties in common with the target memory to elicit retrieval of that memory. |
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