Lin Tzu-Ching E, Honey R C
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom.
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process. 2010 Oct;36(4):501-5. doi: 10.1037/a0018348.
Two experiments examined the content of configural learning in rats. In Experiment 1, after simple pre-exposure to two hybrid contexts (AB and CD), rats acquired a configural discrimination involving two of the contexts (A and C) and two auditory stimuli (X and Y; AX→food, AY→no food, CX→no food, and CY→food). When rats were then placed in context B, they were more likely to respond to X than Y, and when they were placed in context D the reverse was the case. Experiment 2 demonstrated that rats can acquire a configural discrimination involving the presence of context (A) and its memory trace (a; AX→food, AY→no food, aX→no food, and aY→food). These results show that associatively provoked memories (Experiment 1) and memory traces (Experiment 2) can participate in configural discriminations.
两项实验研究了大鼠构型学习的内容。在实验1中，大鼠在简单预暴露于两种混合情境（AB和CD）后，获得了一种涉及其中两种情境（A和C）以及两种听觉刺激（X和Y；AX→食物，AY→无食物，CX→无食物，CY→食物）的构型辨别能力。当大鼠随后被置于情境B中时，它们对X的反应比对Y的反应更有可能；而当它们被置于情境D中时，情况则相反。实验2表明，大鼠能够获得一种涉及情境（A）及其记忆痕迹（a；AX→食物，AY→无食物，aX→无食物，aY→食物）的构型辨别能力。这些结果表明，联想引发的记忆（实验1）和记忆痕迹（实验2）可以参与构型辨别。
