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  • Title: A short intertrial interval facilitates acquisition of context-conditioned fear and a short retention interval facilitates its expression.
    Author: McNally GP, Westbrook RF.
    Journal: J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process; 2006 Apr; 32(2):164-72. PubMed ID: 16634659.
    Abstract:
    Rats were shocked in a context on two occasions and then tested for fear reactions as indexed by freezing. Rats spent the interval between conditioning trials and between conditioning and test in their home cages. A short interval between context-conditioning trials or between trials involving a discrete conditioned stimulus (CS) produced better learning than longer intervals. A short retention interval between conditioning and test produced better performance than longer intervals. The effects of the intertrial interval on learning are the opposite of those reported previously and are opposite to those predicted by contemporary learning theories. The effects of the training to test interval on performance are predicted by Wagner's sometimes opponent process (SOP) theory (Wagner, 1981).
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