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Orienting response reinstatement and dishabituation: Effects of substituting, adding, and deleting components of nonsignificant stimuli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

GERSHON BEN-SHAKHAR ,
ITAMAR GATI ,
NAOMI BEN-BASSAT  and
GALIT SNIPER
GERSHON BEN-SHAKHAR
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
ITAMAR GATI
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
NAOMI BEN-BASSAT
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
GALIT SNIPER
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Abstract

The prediction that orienting response (OR) reinstatement is negatively related to the measure of common features, shared by the stimulus input and representations of preceding events, and positively related to the measure of their distinctive features, was examined. A nonsignificant test stimulus (TS) was presented after nine repetitions of a standard stimulus (SS), followed by two additional repetitions of SS. TS was created by either substituting 0, 1, or 2 components of SS (Experiment 1), or by either adding or deleting 0, 1, or 2 components of SS (Experiment 2). Skin conductance changes to TS (OR reinstatement) and the subsequent SS (dishabituation) were used as dependent measures. The results of Experiment 1 supported the prediction that substituting components of neutral stimuli affects OR reinstatement, with a larger effect for between-categories than within-categories substitution. Experiment 2 demonstrated that adding and deleting components similarly affects OR reinstatement.

Keywords

Orienting responseDishabituationStimulus noveltyFeature-matching theorySkin conductance response
Type
Research Article
Information
Psychophysiology , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 102 - 110
Copyright
© 2000 Society for Psychophysiological Research

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