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| M E BoutonSummaryAffiliation: University of Vermont Country: USA Publications
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Stimulus generalization, context change, and forgettingM E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA
Psychol Bull 125:171-86. 1999..The physical contexts manipulated in learning and memory experiments themselves occur within a superordinate temporal context and can thus be forgotten with no inherent challenge to a context-change account of forgetting...- A learning theory perspective on lapse, relapse, and the maintenance of behavior changeM E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA
Health Psychol 19:57-63. 2000.... - A modern learning theory perspective on the etiology of panic disorderM E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
Psychol Rev 108:4-32. 2001..The relationship between the present view and other views, particularly those that emphasize the role of catastrophic misinterpretation of somatic sensations, is discussed... - Contextual control of appetitive conditioning: influence of a contextual stimulus generated by a partial reinforcement procedureM E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Q J Exp Psychol B 54:109-25. 2001..The results suggest that under the present conditions partial reinforcement can generate a contextual stimulus that becomes associated with the physical context and controls responding to the CS... - The other learning process in substance abuse: comment on Alessi, Roll, Reilly, and Johanson (2002)Mark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 10:84-6; discussion 101-3. 2002..study because the drug was associated with money would benefit from additional experiments that include control conditions isolating the role of the Pavlovian drug-money contingency... - Priming and trial spacing in extinction: effects on extinction performance, spontaneous recovery, and reinstatement in appetitive conditioningErik W Moody
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester) 59:809-29. 2006..Short ITIs in extinction appear to affect extinction performance more than they affect extinction learning. Mechanisms of trial spacing in conditioning and extinction are discussed... - Contextual and temporal modulation of extinction: behavioral and biological mechanismsMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405 0134, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:352-60. 2006..This interaction may be mediated by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic and adrenergic mechanisms... - D-cycloserine facilitates extinction but does not eliminate renewal of the conditioned emotional responseAmanda M Woods
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Behav Neurosci 120:1159-62. 2006..Behavioral mechanisms are discussed... 
Contextual control of inhibition with reinforcement: adaptation and timing mechanismsMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 34:223-36. 2008..IWR may occur in conditioned suppression because the animal adapts to fear of the CS in a context-specific manner. The authors discuss several implications...- D-cycloserine facilitates context-specific fear extinction learningMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, 2 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405 0134, USA
Neurobiol Learn Mem 90:504-10. 2008..e., DCS did not prevent or influence the renewal of fear observed when the extinguished cue was tested in the original conditioning context... - Immediate extinction causes a less durable loss of performance than delayed extinction following either fear or appetitive conditioningAmanda M Woods
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
Learn Mem 15:909-20. 2008..Several other accounts are considered... - Mechanisms of resurgence of an extinguished instrumental behaviorNeil E Winterbauer
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Room 246 John Dewey Hall, 2 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 36:343-53. 2010..Overall, they are consistent with the view that resurgence is a renewal effect in which extinction of an instrumental behavior is specific to the context provided by rewarded leverpressing during the extinction phase... 
Learning and the persistence of appetite: extinction and the motivation to eat and overeatMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, 2 Colchester Ave, Burlington, VT 05405 0134, United States
Physiol Behav 103:51-8. 2011....- Intertrial interval as a contextual stimulusMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Behav Processes 71:307-17. 2006..ITI can function as a contextual cue, and the results suggest new similarities between the processes behind interval timing and associative learning... - Extinction in multiple contexts does not necessarily make extinction less vulnerable to relapseMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, 05405, USA
Behav Res Ther 44:983-94. 2006.... - Importance of trials versus accumulating time across trials in partially reinforced appetitive conditioningMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 29:62-77. 2003..The results underscore the importance of temporal variables in conditioning but are more consistent with trial-based accounts than time-accumulation accounts of conditioning... - A general role for early onset cues and intra-event learning; comment on McDonald and Siegel (2004)Mark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 12:18-9; discussion 23-6. 2004..Evidence that extinction exposure to early onset cues can reduce their power is especially important. Drug conditioning research continues to provide a powerful testing ground for important general principles of learning... - Renewal after the extinction of free operant behaviorMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Learn Behav 39:57-67. 2011..AAB renewal was not weakened by tripling the amount of extinction training. ABA renewal was stronger than AAB, but not merely because of context A's direct association with the reinforcer... - Memory processes in classical conditioningMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 28:663-74. 2004..g. extinction), and provides an overview of how long-term and short-term memory processes influence behavior as it is studied in classical conditioning... - Context and behavioral processes in extinctionMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
Learn Mem 11:485-94. 2004.... - Intertrial interval as a contextual stimulus: further analysis of a novel asymmetry in temporal discrimination learningMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 37:79-93. 2011..Consistent with this view, Experiment 4 found a robust feature-positive effect when sequentially presented CSs played the role of elements A and B... - Effects of bed nucleus of the stria terminalis lesions on conditioned anxiety: aversive conditioning with long-duration conditional stimuli and reinstatement of extinguished fearJaylyn Waddell
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
Behav Neurosci 120:324-36. 2006..Results are consistent with behavioral and anatomical distinctions between fear and anxiety and with a behavior-systems view of defensive conditioning... - The effect of yohimbine on the extinction of conditioned fear: a role for contextRichard W Morris
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Behav Neurosci 121:501-14. 2007..The results suggest that yohimbine, when administered in the presence of a neutral context, creates a form of inhibition in that context that allows that specific context to reduce fear of an extinguished CS... - Interoceptive fear conditioning as a learning model of panic disorder: an experimental evaluation using 20% CO(2)-enriched air in a non-clinical sampleDean T Acheson
Department of Psychology, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY 12222, USA
Behav Res Ther 45:2280-94. 2007..Overall, the findings are consistent with contemporary learning theory accounts of panic... - Effect of unconditioned stimulus magnitude on the emergence of conditioned respondingRichard W Morris
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 32:371-85. 2006..All experiments identified a trial at which responding increased abruptly in individual subjects. However, the point where the increase occurred was earlier with larger USs... - Memory priming and trial spacing effects in Pavlovian learningCeyhun Sunsay
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
Learn Behav 32:220-9. 2004..The results are consistent with Wagner's (1981) "sometimes opponent process," or SOP, model, although a result that is paradoxical for the model suggests that recent USs may have motivational as well as memory effects... - The effects of neurotoxic hippocampal lesions on two effects of context after fear extinctionR J Frohardt
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA
Behav Neurosci 114:227-40. 2000..This dissociation is not the result of differences in the recentness of context learning that ordinarily governs the 2 effects. The results suggest that the hippocampus is necessary for some, but not all, types of contextual learning... - Analysis of a trial-spacing effect with relatively long intertrial intervalsCeyhun Sunsay
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Learn Behav 36:104-15. 2008..g., Wagner, 1981)... - Context, ambiguity, and unlearning: sources of relapse after behavioral extinctionMark E Bouton
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405-0134, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:976-86. 2002..The article concludes with several issues for future research, among them the question of how we can optimize extinction and other putative "unlearning" treatments so as to prevent the various forms of relapse discussed here... - Central CRF receptor antagonist a-helical CRF9-41 blocks reinstatement of extinguished fear: the role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalisJaylyn Waddell
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, USA
Behav Neurosci 122:1061-9. 2008.... - Forward and backward blocking of causal judgment is enhanced by additivity of effect magnitudePeter E Lovibond
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Mem Cognit 31:133-42. 2003..The results confirm that blocking is constrained when effect magnitude is constrained and provide support for an inferential account of cue competition...